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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 4 months ago

They were directed politically after the fact but neither China nor Russia wanted them. No government actively wants a famine… Yet you’ll happily attribute it to these two governments in particular.

Are there other national famines you incorrectly think were desired by governments/ideologies?

…and I’m not talking about artificial shortages such as in Ireland, or the concentration camps of the boerwar… You know, Colonial famines.

"No government actively wants a famine... except for those non-red fascist states!"

Sorry that you believe that colonialism cannot be performed by an imperialist state with a long history of colonialism, if it has a coat of red paint. We - or rather, you - are done here.