• people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Any sources I can refer to for the USSR claim? In my (limited) knowledge all I can recall as a result of USSR's policies was Holodomor. And Holodomor was probably one of the cruelest genocides in the history of mankind.

    • knfrmity@lemmygrad.ml
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      1 year ago

      Holodomor is Nazi propaganda. There was a famine in that time, it was bad, and the Soviets did their absolute best to address the situation. Notably that was the last famine in the regions comprising the USSR, compared to the tsarist era when famines occurred every few years.

      https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/169438

      In terms of what the USSR accomplished, here's a thread collecting many sources. https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1066

      Blackshirts and Reds is an easy read that's recommended on here to no end, and for good reason.

    • zkrzsz [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Holodomor

      Feel free to ask more questions if you have them. People will answer them if you engage the conversation in good faith.

      https://lemmygrad.ml/c/asklemmygrad

    • CriticalResist8@lemmygrad.mlM
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      1 year ago

      results of policies like kulaks burning their crops rather than sell to the state, not being able to control the weather, and the rest of the world not buying Soviet gold forcing them to pre-sell their grain harvest to mechanize.