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[โ€“] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't find a way to phrase this that's not offensive, so I'll just go ahead: Are you being obtuse or do you just not know what you're talking about? Because if it's the latter you should at least take a scroll down this Wikipedia page before you talk about this stuff. However, I will say that sacrificing millions of people for holy communism (which is what happened; the famine was a choice) isn't much better than sacrificing them for holy property rights. Not asking for foreign aid and denying a famine even existed was also inexcusable.

[โ€“] BrainInABox@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 month ago

take a scroll down this Wikipedia page

I am once again asking liberals to stop treating Wikipedia as holy Scripture.

the famine was a choice

It was a result of bad policy, and that policy was a choice, but it's pretty misleading to try and spin that as making the famine itself "a choice".