RE: The Holodomor: Starvation of more than 6 million Ukrainians by Stalin
January 6, 2014 at 6:44 am
(January 5, 2014 at 9:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Not to derail the topic, but An Gorta Mor is something I know more than a little about.
The British made one - ONE - grain purchase to help the starving Irish (corn from the US) and the project was a colossal failure that had nothing to do with the church. All other relief came from private charities (a good number of them religious organisations).
And those charities were ....British. The quakers being foremost amongst them.
Quote:The whole situation could have been alleviated by simply closing Irish ports to food exports, as was done in the 1780s.
The grain would still have been in private hands. You seem to think that it would just have been handed out.
Quote:To be even more boringly pedantic, there was never a famine in Ireland - you can't have a famine in a country full of food.
There was a collapse of the potato crop due to disastrous practices of farmers using the same strain all across the country coupled with the ludicrous habit of splitting land over and over again so that there was bare subsistence
Anyway you are denying that charity money given to the Catholic church was used to buy gold plate?
