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Saturday, July 17, 2004
| Category: History Some interesting stuff about the Ukrainian famine of 1929-33 and a journalist, Walter Duranty, in denial. In all, 10 million Ukrainians, most of them peasants, died as catastrophic, stupid and cruel collectivization policies were imposed by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin on the richest, most fertile, wheat-exporting breadbasket in the world. In the decades before World War I, its annual grain exports regularly vastly outstripped those of the American Midwest.I learnt quite a bit from this article which I found while grazing on comments at Tim Blair's site. BTW, both Tim Blair and Maureen McInerney were on the Today show yesterday morning... Snap! |
