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One of my buddies is a hardened anti communist who thinks communists only create famines and genocides. He linked the wiki page of the Kazakh famine and I can only assume its the most biased crap out there. I need sources about what really happenned and caused the famine. Thank you comrades!

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[-] felipeforte@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 1 month ago
[-] BrownMinusBlue@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Thank you comrade

[-] REEEEvolution@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Communists only create famines and genoicdes, that's why life expectation doubles under them. Because when you kill lots of people, on average they live longer. Me very smort.

[-] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I highly recommend that you get yourself a copy of the book "Human rights in the soviet union" by Albert Szymanski. It discusses the access to goods, healthcare, education, publications in local languages, and much more, for different republics within the USSR, for the period from 1917 to 1980 approximately. There was a famine in Kazakhstan, but how many famines were there in Kazakhstan before communism, and how many were there during?

In the book (which you can probably find online, ehem Anna's Archive ehem), go to the chapter that discusses the central Asian republics, and look quickly through the tables discussing these metrics, and comparing them to (historically similar pre-1917) countries of the region such as Afghanistan or Pakistan. You'll see how communism brought literacy, education, healthcare, pensions, women's rights, and material well-being to central-Asian republics.

[-] MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Many countries had periodic famines in their pre-industrial histories. China had plenty before the PRC, and the Russian Empire had some, too. Agricultural production can be thought of as a machine that would occasionally break down.

If you are given responsibility of a machine that occasionally breaks down, the machine breaks down once soon after you take over, and then never ever again, you fixed the machine.

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