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Need help regarding: Kazakh famine of 1930–1933 (lemmygrad.ml)

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One of my buddies is a hardened anti communist who thinks communists only create famines and genocides. He linked the wiki page of the Kazakh famine and I can only assume its the most biased crap out there. I need sources about what really happenned and caused the famine. Thank you comrades!

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

I highly recommend that you get yourself a copy of the book "Human rights in the soviet union" by Albert Szymanski. It discusses the access to goods, healthcare, education, publications in local languages, and much more, for different republics within the USSR, for the period from 1917 to 1980 approximately. There was a famine in Kazakhstan, but how many famines were there in Kazakhstan before communism, and how many were there during?

In the book (which you can probably find online, ehem Anna's Archive ehem), go to the chapter that discusses the central Asian republics, and look quickly through the tables discussing these metrics, and comparing them to (historically similar pre-1917) countries of the region such as Afghanistan or Pakistan. You'll see how communism brought literacy, education, healthcare, pensions, women's rights, and material well-being to central-Asian republics.