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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by badpun on Friday July 21, 2023 @05:33AM (#36811828)
> Honestly, it would have had them either way.

The pre-soviet famines were of natural causes - crop failures due to droughts etc. After soviets took over the country, these were still ocurring, but were dwarfed by man-made famines, caused by idiotic economic policies (mainly by forced collectivization, which decimated productivity).

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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by Attrecomet on Friday July 21, 2023 @06:15AM (#36812081)
That certainly sounds like bs. The pre-soviet famines' causes were directly the repressive, backward, exploitative and simply evil system that existed and forced the peasants to starve so the nobility and select bourgeois upper class members co-opted into the system could live lives of decadence.
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by xhkkffbf on Friday July 21, 2023 @11:28AM (#36814932)
Yes. Read Timothy Snyder's _Bloodlands_ for a deeper understanding of just how the peasants were starved. Or watch the movie "Mr. Jones".
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Re:Hollywood Movie Aside, Just How Good a Physicist Was Oppe... by skinnymuch on Friday July 21, 2023 @09:20AM (#36813418)
Everything is man made when it’s “them” (communists). And just part of society and natural when things happen in America’s capitalism. The US doesn’t even have universal health care. I don’t know the exact death figures, but it’s not pretty. All deaths that could be prevented from some basic collectivist attitude. Instead of forced individualism.
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