
10.96- Starving To Death
Revolutions
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The Russian Famine of 1921-23
The famine itself finally started to taper off thanks to much better harvests in 19 22 and then again in 19 23, helped along by the mass importation of seeds from the west. But it all ended when it was reported publicly that the soviet government was now exporting grain from ukraine for sale abroad. It was a death blow to any kind of sympathetic generosity from would be supporters in the west. People were not interested in paying to feed a country that was now exported grain it could use to feed itself. So in june 19 23, the a r a suspended its operations in russia and left. Now it all gets dead and buried under years of cold war
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