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re: What is the worst thing that mankind has ever done?
Posted on 3/4/18 at 12:54 pm to TheTideMustRoll
Posted on 3/4/18 at 12:54 pm to TheTideMustRoll
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...so I guess the actual answer is Communism.
Don't forget Uncle Joe Stalin's collectivizing the Soviet Union's agriculture, an event that killed a huge amount of people, though its impossible to be sure just how many died as the records were destroyed. Estimates are between 6 and 13 million people starved to death as a result of the program, many in the Ukraine.
Which took some doing because the Ukraine has some of the richest farm land in the entire war.
Famines tend to be the result of either deliberate policy or sheer bungling (God help you if Britain was in charge of your country's agriculture). We even had our own plan, that we put into place after WW II, to starve our areas of occupied Germany, and were doing so right up until the Cold War started to heat up and we realized the West needed a strong West Germany.
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