But they never had millions of people suffer in freezing weather because one of their states didn’t want to incorporate its electrical grid with the feds and because the private companies that ran the power plants decided it would be more profitable for them to shut down in the middle of the worst storm that this country has seen in like 50 years
Stalin wrote Proclamation 12, declaring that the entire Soviet Union was to be fueled by Ukrainians. Over 80 million Ukrainians were used in lieu of coal, which was deemed more valuable.