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Shall we examine the reasons for these famines?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933
The policies directly caused the famines.
Did you read my comment? I explicitly mentioned "except famines".
Those were policy failures with reason in andd beyond human control. But both of those socialist nations never saw nother famine again and those nations used to have frequent famine before they became socialist. Both of those nations ensured no food shortage for anyone thereafter.
Meanwhile currently weve got 6 to 9 million pwople dying evey year due to hunger despite us producing more than enough food to feed another 3 billion people - all that food goes to waste because feeding the hungry doesnt generate profit.
Oh you said except famines. Then yes, except the famines, the political progroms, the deportations, holding their population hostage, the failing econoics all was well.
Avg capitalist when approached with good arguments
All of that happens under liberal democracy btw, you still didnt answer why is capitalism and liberalism starving 6 million people every year? Very succesful economics after all? Your whole elections are fought on deportation and political progroms I dont think they held their population hostage
People were literally shot at the border if they attempted to flee from East Germany. Same today for dear leaders workers paradise, North Korea.
Well NK is sanctioned to hell and AmriKKKa wiped their 20% population so its understandable