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Ukraine always had food. Unless an empire came to starve them, the land always fed itself, and its neighbors. To my knowledge, there is no historical evidence of any kind of devastating famine until the Holodomor. Right around the time that the USSR collapsed, there was this phenomenon called Russian paratroopers, who came (usually by train, actually) to buy up Ukrainian food. It was a big deal in the early 1990s. Even after the devastation of revolution, invasion and war this year, I have yet to see one report of anyone starving outside the occupied territories on a scale that goes beyond individual tragedy. Which is the exception that proves the rule. I wonder if Russian paratroopers will appear again this winter -- just to go food shopping. Please enjoy this irregularly scheduled interruption in what will be incessant spamming of the Kickstarter campaign until New Years Eve.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 05:32:02 +0000

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