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That's not exactly accurate, Stalin's famine and economic contraction happened in the 30s. Turns out that shooting people is not the long run solution that indu
by pxmpxm 4y ago
That's not exactly accurate, Stalin's famine and economic contraction happened in the 30s. Turns out that shooting people is not the long run solution that induces businesses to sell below their cost.
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- Retric 4y agoMost statistics I could find showed the USSR had modest economic growth during the interwar period. The famine was seemingly intentionally inflicted to speed industrialization which makes it evil rather than incompetence. https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviet-economy-1917-1991-its-life-and-afterlife https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/soviet-economy-1917-1991-its-... I mean you send millions of farmers to factories and yes farm output declines, these things are related.
- lmm 4y agoI don't see anything in your link to claim that the famine was intentionally inflicted. For a country trying to rapidly industrialize, redirecting available labour from farming to factories and hoping that your productivity increases will make up for the reduced labour supply seems like it could be a good faith best effort to uplift the lives of as many people as possible as quickly as possible. Sitting back and letting the economy continue to be agrarian means passively killing many people through lack of access to medicines etc..
- pessimizer 4y agoNothing good can come from getting into this conversation. I'm pretty sure there are one or two countries that would imprison you just for posting this.
- Retric 4y agoThis wasn’t redirecting available labor, it was forcing people off farms without any offsetting attempt to increase efficiency.