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To: I Buried My Guns

Yes, but I did not know your term. I new about the forced famine in the UKraine by Stalin.

Explanation From Wiki:

“The Holodomor” (Ukrainian for: death by starvation) refers to the famine of 1932–1933 in the Ukrainian SSR during which millions of people were starved to death due to Soviet policies.

There were no natural causes for starvation and in fact, Ukraine - unlike other Soviet Republics - enjoyed a bumper wheat crop in 1932.[1][2]

The Holodomor is considered one of the greatest calamities to affect the Ukrainian nation in modern history. Millions of inhabitants of Ukraine died of starvation in an unprecedented peacetime catastrophe.[1][3][4][5]

Estimates on the total number of casualties within Soviet Ukraine range mostly from 2.6 million[6][7] to 10 million.[8]”


103 posted on 10/20/2009 6:43:06 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
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To: Texas Fossil
The tragedy is that Stalin knew he was killing millions of people. He did not care, as the infusion of hard cash was more important to him (The wheat that was stolen was sold to other countries in return for much-needed cash).

But Obama could not possibly be that evil, could he?

104 posted on 10/20/2009 6:52:56 AM PDT by I Buried My Guns
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