So we should know by now that:
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The Holodomor, as an artificially-induced famine directed against Ukrainians, is a crafted nationalist myth, as for example, Ukraine had the most grain exports. (Pg. 157) https://books.google.rs/books?id=jpv0NICOEb8C&pg=PA15&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false
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And the Great Chinese Famine of 1960’s death statistics were inflated, as some Chinese gov’t records of peak death rates during the era were extrapolated to other years of the famine, where death rates were decreasing. https://mronline.org/2006/09/21/did-mao-really-kill-millions-in-the-great-leap-forward/
Questions That being said, there are other famines, from Ethiopia, DPRK, Cambodia and Bangladesh, where socialist-led gov’ts had to face such issues, partially due to war, bad soil, or economic crises, but probably other causes as well.
In addition, there are obviously other famines not as talked about but as serious, if not more so than the ones I’ve mentioned, due to the fact they happened in Colonial and Capitalist-ruling nations. For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_famine_of_1942–1943
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/12/2/how-british-colonial-policy-killed-100-million-indians or simply, Jason Hickel on India.
“Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.”
Even recently, in Afghanistan https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/20/millions-close-to-hunger-after-wfp-cuts-food-aid-to-afghanistan
So, I wanna hear your thoughts
not sure about the others but the Khemer Rouge were undoubtedly Bad News - remember that they went to war with & were subsequently liberated by Vietnam. fascists with a bit more of a socialist aesthetic painted on, backed by a Cambodian prince and the US (as well as China to go after Soviet interests in Vietnam)