From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 1/1/2019 10:04 AM, SolomonW wrote:   
   > On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 09:11:08 +0000, Martin Edwards wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/1/2019 2:25 AM, Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> Stalin's Ukrainian famine...   
   >>>   
   >>> Funny how we can't talk about the man-made   
   >>> famines in Ireland & India, these acts of   
   >>> genocide, because they were enacted by the   
   >>> British.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> We do, in these islands, even if American education is vague on the subject.   
   >   
   >   
   > Actually, I doubt whether any of these acts are genocide. Stalin never   
   > intended to kill off the Ukrainians, neither did the British intend to kill   
   > off the Irish nor Indians.   
   >   
   > The other issue is that the famine in Ireland was not man made, and the   
   > Bengal Famine could be argued that it was a result of WW2, but I think it   
   > should be considered an act of incompetence. There was certainly no intent.   
   >   
   Thanks for that, but it is true that grain from Ireland was being sent   
   to the big island while the peasants had no spuds.  Be it also noted   
   that Church of Ireland clergy protested about it.   
      
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