RE: The Holodomor: Starvation of more than 6 million Ukrainians by Stalin
January 7, 2014 at 5:43 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2014 at 5:44 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
Quote:Brian sodding boru -what do you mean by tenant farmers not being paid a wage? tenant farmers are never paid a wage, they RENT the farm from the landlord and they own and sell the produce thereof
That's simply not the case. The Irish tenants rented their plots from the owners (at usually exorbitant rates) and were paid a wage to grow crops. The crops were owned by the landlords and were for export only. The actual smallholding of the tenant (his 'own' plot) was where he grew the potatoes to feed himself and his family. The great majority of his time was spent working land he did not own to grow food he was not permitted to eat and which the tenant farming system left him too poor to purchase.
For the record, I don't think the Great Hunger was a deliberate act of genocide by the British, but a very strong case can be made that it was at least an opportunistic attempt at genocide.
Since it isn't considered good form to ask a question before you've answered one asked of you:
Do you have a source for the misappropriation of relief funds by the Church?
Boru
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