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• tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lysenkoism was the cause of both the Soviet and Chinese famines, a grand tragedy only possible under an authoritarian fever dream.

    Ignore the lessons of history if you want, it just makes you the villain of the next cycle.

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    • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There was no one single cause, and trying to deflect blame onto a single (exceptionally whackdoodle) pseudoscientific theory is intellectually dishonest at best, and regular dishonest at worst.

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Funny, because it ended when he did.

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    • Eldritch@piefed.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don't think I've ever up voted a comment of yours. But you are 100% on point about Lysenko. His promotion and the treatment of Vavilov are emblematic of a few of the many many flaws of Leninism. Vavilov was at least posthumously exonerated.Though he still died in a Siberian gulag for the crime of disagreeing with comrade Stalin, and sticking to the evidence.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wouldn’t associate that with a revolution though. Similar to how the “Irish potato famine” was something the brits did to Ireland.

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