• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      As a precursor, sure. The OG 1918 October Revolution was fueled by a string of famines, exacerbated by the World War.

      The American Bonus Marchers of 1932 were also propelled by food shortages of The Dust Bowl.

      But these events get vanishingly little coverage in western history textbooks

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      5 months ago

      Which communist revolution? Russia was having famines before the soviet revolution. Its more reasonable to say communism solved the famines in russia and created them in china.

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        5 months ago

        Eh the Soviets had plenty of their own man made famine (Holodomor, among others)

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          I wouldn’t associate that with a revolution though. Similar to how the “Irish potato famine” was something the brits did to Ireland that’s a thing the soviets did to their colonies, essentially and I would probably chalk it up to a type of colonialism