Stan Shebs wrote:
Fred Bauder wrote:
You stand convicted by your own words. This
exerpt is an excellent
example,
no famines, no mass murder, no gulag, no deportations. And most
especially,
no failure to produce enough to adequately feed the Soviet people.
No, he explains it right there where it's the people's fault for
having "poor
worker productivity" even though the main agricultural areas had produced
surpluses for export since ancient times.
I have to apologize for reacting to the quoted bit out of context; in
the next section of [[Economy of the Soviet Union]] the poor
productivity is indeed attributed to forced collectivization.
Interestingly, that section is so delicately phrased that the average
reader won't actually find out what happened; it just says "the human
toll was catastrophic", which could mean any number of things. There
are details about the famines in WP, I didn't see any links that
would explain "human toll" via connections to any of those articles.
Stan