• Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Forget the Bengal Famine, during the exact same period as the famine in the USSR, French West Africa, a much smaller area than the affected areas of the USSR, with a smaller population, lost proportionally more to famine. Why? Because the French colonial authorities refused to lower taxes during drought, and refused grain aid to affected farmers.

    Why therefore the USSR is so demonised, and the French West African famine is completely forgotten, should be pretty telling of the ideology at play here.

    Had no idea about this. It's like every few weeks I find out about some past atrocity that the "civilized blue eyes blond hair" societies have committed

    • Rod_Blagojevic [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      I don't know the exact dates, but didn't agriculture on the southern plains of the United States collapse at the same time. We talk about the dust bowl, but wasn't there a famine that accompanied it?

      Edit: The Grapes of Wrath is about a famine, right?

      • TrudeauCastroson [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Dustbowl caused a lot of crop failure. I've never seen a number that died because of it.

        Wonder if they actually had breadlines or not and if there's pics of it to use to screw with people who think it's in Soviet Union.

      • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        I've never seen any mention of a real famine being associated with the dust bowl. I think it mostly just caused a migration from where those crop failures occurred. I'd have to imagine the deaths would be comparatively way lower than actual famines