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The communist famines were primarily caused by forced collectivization which disrupted the agriculture industry, incompetent centralized administration, and poo
by Veen 4y ago
The communist famines were primarily caused by forced collectivization which disrupted the agriculture industry, incompetent centralized administration, and poor economic planning. They were literally caused by communist policies. The Great Potato famine was caused by potato blight and and the Indian Famine was caused by drought.
- dontlaugh 4y agoConveniently, you're ignoring both the periodic environmental famine conditions experienced in both Eastern Europe and China for centuries and the British profit-making policies that caused famine in both Ireland and India.
- Veen 4y agoDiscussing this topic with tankies is a waste of time, so I'll just refer you to my previous comments.
- tut-urut-utut 4y ago> Discussing this topic with tankies is a waste of time I had to search for “tankie”. Thanks for introducing a new word for me. For people who don't know what “tankie” is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie However, please keep in mind that not everyone who is not a priori against communism can be classified as hard core Stalinist. One should be able to criticize both systems, and wish a better one, without being labelled from one side as “tankie” and from the other side as “imperialistic capitalistic pig”, or another insult of the day.
- dontlaugh 4y ago[flagged]
- wbsss4412 4y agoThe Russian famine in the early 1920s was also caused by crop failures in the way that the potato famine was caused by blight. In both cases, government actions were what drove crop failures to become widespread famines.