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Yeah, that’s not what happened. The Wikipedia’s article I linked in the previous comment has a good overview. Also the list of famines worldwide [1] does’t co
by hkpack 1y ago
Yeah, that’s not what happened.
The Wikipedia’s article I linked in the previous comment has a good overview.
Also the list of famines worldwide [1] does’t confirm your statement with famine every 10 years. And especially there were very few famines with millions of dead from hunger before on the eastern eu territory - the one in 19xx was man-made in its entirety.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines
- skinnymuch 1y agoThey obviously meant famines in the location that is being discussed. Why would they be talking about worldwide famines? How would a famine in South America be relevant to the Soviets?
- hkpack 1y agoThe famine of the 19xx scale is the “world-grade” event. There were just few of such magnitude in the entire world in all of our knowledge.
- incr_me 1y agoIt's been 80+ years since a famine in the former Soviet Union. Here's your Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia_and_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droughts_and_famines_in_Russia... > From the beginning of the 11th to the end of the 16th century, on the territory of Russia for every century there were 8 crop failures, which were repeated every 13 years, sometimes causing prolonged famine in a significant territory. (That was already right there in your Wikipedia link. Sources are more scattered regarding the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, but it's all there if you search for it. One thing I was just reminded of is that in the 19th century and up until 1917, the Russian Empire maintained communal granaries to combat recurring famine, but to no avail.) > After 1947 there were no known famines.