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History of Famines, in the Eucranian Famine

Eucranian famine fits into the history of, let's call them colonial famines. A marchieson has a very important little book about famines and empires. They're about politics and the ability to make political choices to distribute food. In 19 31 and 19 32, not surprisingly, you get a much lower yield than you have got in the previous years. The second one is that they ban ucranians from going to other parts of the soviet union to beg for food. And therer measures hare passed specifically about ucrane, which guarantee that millions of people have to die who wouldn't otherwise have had to die. So yes, o that like

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