• YEP [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    He sourcing from a book fairly widely discredited by academics. Adding on to the wildly discredited notion that the Soviet famine was intentional. Like this is literally cold war propaganda people were paroting in the 80s. Embarrassing

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      Adding on to the wildly discredited notion that the Soviet famine was intentional

      The fuck, have you ever heard of the Holodomor? Family members of people I know had people die of hunger because russian soldiers would confiscate all their food right before winter. Sick fucks.

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        I get that you are lying to win the argument here and are just making shit up but no, it is incredibly well documented and looked at in incredibly boring books like ‘The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931–1933 (Industrialisation of Soviet Russia)’ that literally digs through russian and ukranian archives and looks at seed data and is again incredibly boring but comes to the conclusion that the Soviet famine which I quote:

        Our study of the famine has led us to very different conclusions from Dr Conquest’s. He holds that Stalin ‘wanted a famine’, that ‘the Soviets did not want the famine to be coped with successfully’, and that the Ukrainian famine was ‘deliberately inflicted for its own sake’. This leads him to the sweeping conclusion: ‘The main lesson seems to be that the Communist ideology provided the motivation for an unprecedented massacre of men, women and children. We do not at all absolve Stalin from responsibility for the famine. His policies towards the peasants were ruthless and brutal. But the story which has emerged in this book is of a Soviet leadership which was struggling with a famine crisis which had been caused partly by their wrongheaded policies, but was unexpected and undesirable. The background to the famine is not simply that Soviet agricultural policies were derived from Bolshevik ideology, though ideology played its part. They were also shaped by the Russian pre-revolutionary past, the experiences of the civil war, the international situation, the intransigeant circumstances of geography and the weather, and the modus operandi of the Soviet system as it was established under Stalin. They were formulated by men with little formal education and limited knowledge of agriculture. Above all, they were a consequence of the decision to industrialise this peasant country at breakneck speed.

        Anyone should take some boring history book over ‘a family member of a friend person I know’.

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          We do not at all absolve Stalin from responsibility for the famine. His policies towards the peasants were ruthless and brutal.

          Your source directly states that those policies were real and that they happened. Soldiers confiscating food before winter and leaving farmers without any is not anything your source is denying.

          Anyone should take some boring history book over ‘a family member of a friend person I know’.

          Cool, I’ll trust more my GF’s grandma that had to live throught it. Thanks.

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            lol yeah sure bud, it went from ‘a family member of a person I know’ to my ‘GF’s grandma had to live through it’, which is something a person who is lying about this would do so uh congrats? Stop getting your history info from Jordan Peterson, actually stop watching Jordan Peterson and you might even get a real girlfriend.

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              my GF’s grandma that had to live through it is literally a family member of a person I know, I didn’t want to explose too much info, and given your reaction, I shouldn’t have. All it went was from low context to medium context, the info being the same.

              It’ seems like you have squared me as a white male American conservative (Jordan Peterson wtf…), so there’s no point in discussing it more. All I’m going to reveal is that I’m from Spain, and my partner was born in Ukraine, which I’m sure can be extracted from my post history so there’s no point in hiding that.

              Also, quite funny that when I raise my points about your own quote, you attack my personal experience and call me a liar.

              you might even get a real girlfriend

              :) Anyway, have a nice day.

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                Oh I get it you are more into Franco, please tell me how did that fictional encounter happen did your GF show up with her grandma one day and granny was like “you are her boyfriend let me tell you about…” because I have a good friend who’s grandfather fought in the spanish civil war only I didn’t find out about this through his grandma but him because this is the person I’m actually close to. That’s why I know you are a liar, you can pretend all you want and add all the modifiers but I doubt it matters at this point it’s not like you can back down from this extravagant lie.

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                  because I have a good friend who’s grandfather fought in the spanish civil war only I didn’t find out about this through his grandma but him because this is the person I’m actually close to

                  You have a good friend? My grand parents fought on the civil war, and we lost. My family had to suffer through the Franco oppresion, I’m Basque for fuck’s sake, Almost all of my family memebrs had to suffer thought the Franco opporesion, on the schools, on the streets… They had to work with with the communities so that the local language was not lost.

                  Ask your friend about the Ukranian immigration in Spain and Portugal, there’s quite a lot of them and some of those now have Spaniard nationalities. Anyway, I don’t get why I must defend myself, I get why American republicans are so good at what they do, if you attack nonstop you don’t have to justify shit.

                  You are deraged, you have done nothing but attack the person instead of the idea, while calling me a liar nonstop. You must be a troll and while I enjoy reading on LGTB communities of hexbear, I fucking get why people want to defederate from hexbear, it’s not the communism, it’s you and people like you. Congrats.

                  Enjoy your bubble.

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        I have heard of it that is why I referenced it, this argument has been raging for decades. The idea of a terror famine has been pushed in popular media even though it is not the common view held by experts in the field of study. I’ll link one of the funnier exchanges on the subject in Getty’s review of Conquest’s harvest of sorrow (one of the more more widely cited sources in popular culture of the intentional famine narrative) in the London review of books.

        https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v09/n02/j.-arch-getty/starving-the-ukraine

        For context this was also written before western academics has access to the Soviet archives which further served to vindicate the Getty’s criticism of the narrative.

        No one denies that there was death and hardship. When you call something genocide you are saying there was a deliberate effort to eradicate a peoples, there isn’t sufficient evidence of intentionality or malice to come to the conclusion of genocide. You can say there was a poorly planned and executed state policy(I personally think it could have been better handled) but it also ignores the global context of wide spread crop failures at the time, for example in the north American dust bowl or the West African famines (I’d argue you can make a much more substantiated claim of genocide in West Africa). It also ignores the material conditions that Soviet agriculture at the time was underdeveloped because of the serfdom under the tsars.

        I don’t expect us to reconcile but when your response is just my grandma says so you come off as unserious and that’s why you are getting dunked on. In America a popular boomer conspiracy that people will attest to is that there were Jews celebrating when 9/11 happened it doesn’t mean it’s correct or should be taken seriously.

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      And this kinda shit is why it was a waste of everyones time for hexbear to federate with everyone. All you do is deny genocide and post poopy pig balls.