God not tankie shit on .world. Here’s this really cool idea: you don’t need to look up to Stalin to be critical of the US. You don’t need to support any superpowers actually… No one is making you
The millions of Ukrainians who starved during the Holodomor would beg to differ. Also, when exactly are they talking about? The USSR was around for 70~ years, that’s a long time for them to improve things
That does kind of point out that the ending of the famine cycles in the modern world wasn’t a capitalism vs socialism split or even centralization, it was technological innovation and industrialization itself.
The greatest famines of the mid to late 20th century were genocides, not crop failures, and hunger and lack on a daily basis in the 21st is a social choice.
it was commonly held at the time that we needed more grain. since then we have come to understand that is not true.
Two different things can happen in different spots from the same government.
https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor
Yeah. But I think it’s important to understand both, much in the same way that the American government and capitalism lead to both the modern age of plenty and the dust bowl.
What year is that from?
These folks don’t understand that compairing Stalin’s policies to US policies is not the flex they think it is.
3520 calories
I’m a postal worker that used to bike 150 miles a pop and trained for a 50k and thought it was absolutely bonkers for me to be eating 4000 calories a day on the basis that the generic recommended value was 2000 so I guess I stand corrected
2000 calories is based on an hour of strenuous exercise a day, and it’s a broad generalization even then.
Basic food in America is stuffed full of sugar and high fructose corn syrup. Their “bread” is often as sweet as cake batter.