Believe it or not, but I actually appreciate being corrected when it’s in good faith.

Absolutely. I’m just in the habit of pointing out anticommunist causes due to the widespread belief that Stalin himself caused the famine.

In soviet, lots of things happened. Firstly, famine was not uncommon in the first place. Countless deaths from famine was also the case before the October revolution. Just in the beginning of the1900’s there were famines in 1901, 1906 and 1911, and not long before that, there was a famine in 1891 which claimed 500k lives.

The collectivisation of agriculture often gets the blame for excessive deaths during the 1932 famine. It would be better to say that the landowners(Kulaks) reaction to the collectivisation caused excessive deaths. Millions of cattle and pigs were slaughtered and left to rot by the kulaks and crops were burned.

In spite of these sabotages, there were still farms that successfully collectivised and managed to meet the quota set during the famine. Even though Ukraine SSR have had had the infamous rumor of genocide against Ukraine during the famine, it was also here the reaction against collectivisation was strongest, and sabotages to food production destroyed around 50% of crops and cattle.

The famine was actually worse in Kazakhstan in terms of percentage of population. And there was never a claim of genocide taking place in this region. Guess not being a neighbor to the west isolated you somewhat to western propaganda.

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Alright, my bad

Foreign man in foreign land and Andrewism comes to mind

I just remembered my time walking to work in a snow storm. Hating my life and feeling like a drone with no purpose other than to work. It was at a hard time of my life, so the monotony of my life was extra hard to deal with at that time. Anyways, some time later I started crossing paths with this man. He was always smiling at me, saying “good morning” and moving out of the path for me to walk past him (there was a thin path of downtrodden snow). I don’t know why, but this moved me to tears everyday I meat him. So yeah, happines or compassion or something. Good feelings

China had/has sanctions on import/export of coal, some petroleum products as well as some textiles. I haven’t read any statements about the their sanctions from China, so I don’t know why.

It seems to come from a UN resolution, but I’m not sure

If Hollywood wants to produce a movie about war/ show military operations etc. they can let the D.O.D in on the production/writing. If the D.O.D is allowed to co-write the script, the production team basically get to use equipment and military locations for free.

This is the part of the deal that’s out in the open. I’m certain of that there’s a lot more going on behind closed curtains.

Thanks! Great thread about the topic