Today 4pm candles will be lit to commemorate the #Holomodor of 1932-33, Stalin's enforced starvation of Ukraine. 5m+ died. In 1932, USSR exported 1.73m tonnes of grain, 1.68m in 1933 when reserves were 1.8m tonnes. Human life counts for little when building the Communist utopia.
As Orwell put it - 'there's something wrong with a regime that requires a pyramid of corpses every few years ... All people who are morally sound have known since 1931 that the Russian regime stinks.'
But British pro-Soviet enthusiasts denied anything really serious was going on.
But British pro-Soviet enthusiasts denied anything really serious was going on.
The denials by Sidney & Beatrice 'Stalin is no dictator' Webb, Labour heroes, founders of the LSE & New Statesmen were brazen lies - but they were duped. They passed their text to the Sov. Embassy in London for editing 🤦♂️This page is from my book about to be reprinted #Holomodor
Another e.g. of the idiocy of the British Left then: Aneurin Bevan, another of Labour's great heroes, in 1933, the 2nd year of the famine, insisting that in the 'classless' USSR ppl had more security than in the UK.
Try telling that to the orphaned kid whose parents had just died
Try telling that to the orphaned kid whose parents had just died
Lots more examples from 1917-1953 in my book, reprinting in paperback, out in a few weeks. Copies available from my website shortly.
(Website being rebuilt at the moment but it will be back up soon)
(Website being rebuilt at the moment but it will be back up soon)
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