Oh jesus christ. Get the fuck out. I'm done with you. What the fuck is your problem. LOL
Ok, so the Ukrainian starvation was not the Kulak rebellion because it was 10 years later.
But I see no proof it was deliberate either.
{...
The
Holodomor (
Ukrainian: Голодомо́р,
romanized:
Holodomor, IPA:
[ɦolodoˈmɔr];
[2] derived from морити голодом,
moryty holodom, 'to kill by starvation'),
[a][3][4][5] also known as the
Terror-Famine[6][7][8] or the
Great Famine,
[9] was a
famine in
Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of
Ukrainians. The term "
Holodomor" emphasises the famine's
man-made character and alleged intentional aspects such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs and restriction of population movement. The Holodomor famine was part of the wider
Soviet famine of 1932–1933 which affected the major
grain-producing areas of the country.
[10]
Ukraine was one of the largest grain producing states in the USSR and as a result was hit particularly hard by the famine.
[11] Millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of
starvation in a
peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in
Ukrainian history.
[12] Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by
Ukraine[13] alongside 15 other countries as a
genocide against the Ukrainian people carried out by the
Soviet government.
[14]
Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials vary greatly.
[15] A joint statement to the
United Nations signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7–10 million died.
[16][17] However, current scholarship range lower, with 3.5 to 5 million victims.
[18][19][20][21][22]
Whether or not the
Holodomor was genocide is still the subject of legal and academic debate. While historians universally agree that the cause of the famine was man-made, the intentionality of the deaths remains in question.
[23][24][25] Some historians conclude that the famine was planned and exacerbated by
Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.
[12][26] Others suggest that the famine was a concomitant of rapid
Soviet industrialisation and
collectivization of agriculture.
[27][28][29] Nevertheless, the famine's widespread impact on Ukraine persists to this day.
[30]
...}
What would be the point to gain for Stalin?
Isn't it more likely Stalin listened to bad agricultural advice from Lysenko?
{...
Lysenkoism (
Russian: Лысенковщина,
romanized:
Lysenkovshchina, IPA:
[lɨˈsɛnkəfɕːʲɪnə];
Ukrainian: лисенківщина,
romanized:
lysenkivščyna, IPA:
[lɪˈsɛnkiu̯ʃtʃɪnɐ]) was a political campaign led by Soviet biologist
Trofim Lysenko against
genetics and science-based
agriculture in the mid-20th century, rejecting
natural selection in favour of a form of
Lamarckism, as well as expanding upon the techniques of
vernalization and
grafting. In time, the term has come to be identified as any deliberate distortion of scientific facts or theories for purposes that are deemed politically, religiously or socially desirable.
More than 3,000 mainstream
biologists were dismissed or imprisoned, and numerous scientists were executed in the Soviet campaign to
suppress scientific opponents. The president of the Soviet Agriculture Academy,
Nikolai Vavilov, who had been Lysenko's mentor, but later denounced him, was sent to prison and died there, while Soviet genetics research was effectively destroyed. Research and teaching in the fields of
neurophysiology,
cell biology, and many other biological disciplines were harmed or banned.
The government of the
Soviet Union (USSR) supported the campaign, and
Joseph Stalin personally edited a speech by Lysenko in a way that reflected his support for what would come to be known as Lysenkoism, despite his skepticism toward Lysenko's assertion that all science is class-oriented in nature.
[1] Lysenko served as the director of the USSR's
Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences. Other countries of the
Eastern Bloc including the
People's Republic of Poland, the
Republic of Czechoslovakia, and the
German Democratic Republic accepted Lysenkoism as the official "new biology", to varying degrees, as did the
People's Republic of China for some years.
...}
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