FWIW I guess it depends on how good of a history teacher you had. This was back in the 80s at a US public school in a part of the country with a very large Iris

FWIW I guess it depends on how good of a history teacher you had. This was back in the 80s at a US public school in a part of the country with a very large Irish immigrant population, but I learned about why the Irish depended on potatoes (vis a vis caloric return for amount of effort in poor/rocky soil), the dangers of mono-cropping, the English system of landlords and tenant farming, and the long-term impacts of the Irish diaspora from this event upon other countries. As a comparison the Holodomor does not offer many useful lessons to students other than 'Stalin bad, top-down planning bad.'