• Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlM
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    1 year ago

    This is false, even by the CIA’s own admission:

    https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP84B00274R000300150009-5.pdf

    You must be speaking about the USSR’s early period, transitioning from a rural backwater into an industrial power house. They experienced a famine then (and unfortunately it was the routine even before communism), but once they completed collectivication, there no longer were any. In other words, communism ended the pattern of famines in Russia and Ukraine.