Comments on: Stalin’s Famines and Walter Duranty https://hankeringforhistory.com/stalins-famines-and-walter-duranty/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=stalins-famines-and-walter-duranty Hanker: To have a strong, often restless desire, in this case for--you guessed it--history! Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:24:44 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Samir https://hankeringforhistory.com/stalins-famines-and-walter-duranty/#comment-76189 Mon, 04 Jan 2016 04:24:44 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=5675#comment-76189 In reply to Roberta Robinson.

Control by the wealthy elites? Um, I realize you’re just repeating phrases you’ve been taught will get you praise and reward, but be more intelligent than a monkey pulling a leaver for a pellet. These were COMMUNISTS, stupid. They had murdered all the “wealthy elites” in favor of a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” But Stain’s socialism, just like Hitlers, was worse than the monarchies they sought to replace. And disgusting you’d say “but it was mostly the private property owners.” Uh, do you own the computer you’re typing this on? Yeah? Maybe a car? Then YOU are a property owner, stupid. Should we let some dictator starve you to death in the name of a socialist utopia? So stupid. Forty million dead, and all you can do is mouth platitudes and try to sound smart.

]]> By: History (@History1917) https://hankeringforhistory.com/stalins-famines-and-walter-duranty/#comment-590 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:49:30 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=5675#comment-590 40 seems far too high, Mao’s famine was about 45 million, but most academic and peer reviewed journals agree that a figure between about 5-7 million is probably about right. I err on the side of caution and go with the consensus, (and it you want a well documented study of the entire field of debate you can read my article here: http://hnn.us/articles/soviet-famines-stalinist-genocide)

I would be interested to know what articles you consider to be fraudulent

]]> By: narn https://hankeringforhistory.com/stalins-famines-and-walter-duranty/#comment-589 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:23:39 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=5675#comment-589 The highest estimate (and remember these are estimates based on flawed birth rate extrapolations) is 10 million. No one knows the number of deaths, but it probably was under two million. The population of Ukraine was only 20 million in 1932. Duranty’s reporting does not follow modern journalistic standards; however, he is the victim of a smear campaign, seventy years after his reporting, because his dispatches, and many others at the time, do not fit the concocted narrative of a Ukraine genocide. These new spins on the famine’s history rely on an incestuous use of unverifiable or proven fraud newspaper documents and eyewitness accounts.

]]> By: Roberta Robinson https://hankeringforhistory.com/stalins-famines-and-walter-duranty/#comment-588 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:10:00 +0000 https://hankeringforhistory.com/?p=5675#comment-588 itis my understanding that the number of starved to death was 40 million, it was mostly the private property owners they targeted. but hey it could of been an experienment in the fastest cheapest population control by the wealthy elites, who knows. they have always wanted a way to curb the population for easier control, and to reduce their cost of doing business. after all the less people you have the less worried you are of revoltes uprisings and new armies of poor fighting back against unjust slavery and the less money and time you have to spend on pacifing the poor just enough to keep them from revolting.

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