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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine

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when we will see the Nuremberg Trials N2?

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In 1929 Stalin launched his policy of agricultural collectivization—in effect a second Russian revolution—which forced millions of peasants off their land and onto collective farms. The result was a catastrophic famine, the most lethal in European history. At least five million people died between 1931 and 1933 in the USSR. But instead of sending relief the Soviet state made use of the catastrophe to rid itself of a political problem. In Red Famine, Anne Applebaum argues that more than three million of those dead were Ukrainians who perished not because they were accidental victims of a bad policy but because the state deliberately set out to kill them.

Applebaum proves what has long been suspected: after a series of rebellions unsettled the province, Stalin set out to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry. The state sealed the republic’s borders and seized all available food. Starvation set in rapidly, and people ate anything: grass, tree bark, dogs, corpses. In some cases, they killed one another for food. Devastating and definitive, Red Famine captures the horror of ordinary people struggling to survive extraordinary evil.

Today, Russia, the successor to the Soviet Union, has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more. Applebaum’s compulsively readable narrative recalls one of the worst crimes of the twentieth century, and shows how it may foreshadow a new threat to the political order in the twenty-first."

Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine – Anne Applebaum


Historian Anne Applebaum Details Stalin’s War Against Ukraine: ‘I Believe It Was Genocide’
 
Reminds me of Hillary's promise to put coal businesses out of work. She probably had millions of Americans starving to death when she thought up that idea.
 
Reminds me of Hillary's promise to put coal businesses out of work. She probably had millions of Americans starving to death when she thought up that idea.

Totally and completely wrong, and you knew it. First, most of the coal jobs were already gone. Second, the point was that the discoveries of cheaper, cleaner, natural gas would further deplete the requirement for coal fired power generation.
I guess you had the picture of millions of Americans dying of Black Lung when you made that post.
 
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