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FrenLivesMatter@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I’m pretty sure “eat the rich” is not comparable to “kill 5 million Ukrainians.”

Well, that’s the thing, that’s actually almost exactly what happend. The Soviets basically labeled all the (relatively) wealthy farmers as class enemies and started deporting them en masse in order to seize their lands and turn them over to collectivized farming. The problem was that along with those farmers, they also got rid of the knowledge they had about how to work the land effectively, and as a result, the following harvests were increasingly poor, which is what caused the mass starvation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_the_Holodomor#Del…

The same thing happened during the Great Leap Forward in China.

And I’m also pretty sure ‘rich person’ is neither an ethnicity nor a nationality.

Are you saying that because they went by income instead of by race, it technically wasn’t genocide, just mass murder? I’m not sure that makes it any better. Also, don’t forget that a lot of the poor people died as well, so it didn’t even help those it was supposed to benefit.

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