Communism: Resist Or Cease To Exist
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I wish people here would do a second of research. This is from the Madras famine of 1877 in India. It has nothing to do with communism at all, Britain was running India at the time. There was a horrible drought and pretty much all crops were lost that year. The leaders in India tried to buy grain from Britain, but they didn't have enough to go around and no other countries were exporting at that level.
Fair enough. I took the picture from https://vintagenewsdaily.com/28-horrifying-photos-of-holodomor-the-ukrainian-famine-that-killed-millions/
This in turn was a repost of the following: https://allthatsinteresting.com/holodomor-ukrainian-famine#7
I dug deeper and you appear to be right. The first article added additional pictures and one of them was the picture I chose. That one appears to be from India during the Madras famine.
Thank you for the keen eye and all the best.
So, I went through six random photos, and five were not from Holodomor, the one that was was the farmers donating bread one.
Don't think for one second I'm defending any of that situation, I'm not, it was horrible, my great grandparents both died there during the time. My grandfather, who was 6'2 weighed 91lbs when he died.
But, let's be accurate and at least check something before we post it, it makes us look foolish when stuff that hits the top is so easily debunked.
If you're looking for the actual horrors of what happened during the Holodomor, have a look at this: https://web.archive.org/web/20111212193000/http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/MEDIA/01292.pdf
During the two year famine, 2,500 people were convicted of eating their children. That's how bad Stalin made the famine. The whole situation was not created, but it's where the saying, "Never let a tragedy go to waste," originates.
There was a famine, mostly due to industrialization and farmers moving into cities to work factory jobs and many farms went unattended. Stalin saw the possibilities of what a food shortage would do, and he amplified it. He started confiscating food from farms and withholding it from the lower class, which starved them all off.
His hope was that he could then turn around and provide for them, which would make him a hero - except it was an actual famine and he had no food to hand over to the poor so around six million people starved to death.
OP may have taken the photo from
https://www.readerscamp.com/holodomor-soviet-famine-horrific-manmade-tragedy/
It's quite difficult to find any relevant Holodomor photos.
Both photos of starving families in that post are from the Madras Famine of 1877 in India.
I didn't dispute this. OP didn't research enough the topic before posting. Thank you for answering my implied question with Hennadii Boriak's article "Holodomor Archives and Sources: The State of the Art".
Yang Jishen's "Tombstone" can help understand what monsters like Stalin and Mao thought they were accomplishing with these man made calamities: https://archive.org/details/5-of-5.-tombstone Grab this five parts reading, it's worth a listening.