Saturday, February 7, 2009

The truth of the matter

You have to know by now that my heart is in Haiti. Well maybe you didn't really know it but now you do. It is a shame but I am seeing some of the same things happening in Haiti that happened in the Soviet Union back in 1932 - 1933. There is a famine happening in the Nation of Haiti right now which has been going on there for years and only gets worse. In the Soviet Union it was referred to by the term "Golodomor" which means "mass hunger" or "great hunger" which cause the death of millions of victims through the Soviet Union. I guess now they are attempting to change the spelling of the term "Goldomor" to holodomor. and by doing this make it sound more like "holocaust"

But during the Goldomore in the Soviet Union the communist government actually seized grains from the peasants and exported most of the acricultural output to the West in order to sustain the rapid economic transformation, industrialization policy designed by Joseph Stalin. The Scholars estimate that about 6-8 million peasants died during the famine of 1932-1933. I am not really sure if this could be considered as a genocide attempt or maybe just greed or stupidity. I don't know but like I said there are a lot of people every day who die in Haiti from starvation, Men, Women and Children die there every day because they can not afford the most basic of food which is rice.

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