• Devilsadvocate
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        11 months ago

        I mean this is just for the ssr, which is by far the most successful example of a communist power.

        But most current and past communist countries famously have famines.

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              11 months ago

              So two from checks notes 80 years ago in regions that experienced famine every 10 years and never experienced famine again, one literally caused by a us blockade and one caused by a us blockade and a catastrophic flood that hit 30% of the country.

              When I get back to the computer we can compare that to the famines experienced by capitalist countries during the same period.

              Regardless, the suggestion that communism is somehow fundamentally bound to malnutrition is ahistorical.

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                11 months ago

                Yeah that’s true, but i never said that it’s fundamentally bound. Just that communist countries have a high amount of famines.

                The proportion of number of communist countries to famines in those countries is higher than that of capitalist countries to famines in those countries.

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                  11 months ago

                  Africa alone has enough capitalist countries (imperial holdings) with famines over the same time period to disprove that. then we can start talking about bengal and ireland.

                  communist countries don’t have more famines than capitalist ones.

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            11 months ago

            The whole doc is talking about the caloric intake of a Soviet citizen

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              11 months ago

              That’s what made me think it was across the whole Soviet Union. The cia was usually pretty specific about what particular soviet they meant because their data would be used in operations against those particular states.