Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933.
Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate.
The researcher touched upon quite a hot topic in the article – the estimation of the number of victims of the Great Depression in the USA. The material presented in the article apparently made Wikipedia’s moderators delete the piece from the database of the online encyclopedia.
The researcher, Boris Borisov, in his article titled “The American Famine” estimated the victims of the financial crisis in the US at over seven million people. The researcher also directly compared the US events of 1932-1933 with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during 1932-1933.
In the article, Borisov used the official data of the US Census Bureau. Having revised the number of the US population, birth and date rates, immigration and emigration, the researcher came to conclusion that the United States lost over seven million people during the famine of 1932-1933.
“According to the US statistics, the US lost not less than 8 million 553 thousand people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly between 1930-1931: the indices drop and stay on the same level for ten years. There can no explanation to this phenomenon found in the extensive text of the report by the US Department of Commerce “Statistical Abstract of the United States,” the author wrote.
The researcher points out the movement of population at this point: “A lot more people left the country than arrived during the 1930s – the difference is estimated at 93,309 people, whereas 2.960,782 people arrived in the country a decade earlier. Well, let’s correct the number of total demographic losses in the USA during the 1930s by 3,054 people.”
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english.pravda.ru/world/americas/19-05-2008/105255-famine-0
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This is obviously an attempt to divert attention from the Holodomor
26.06.2008 05:35
History checker
This shirt is blacknot
26.06.2008 07:38
P.S Fascism in both Germany and Italy operated under capitalistic principles.
A21
Re: Famine
26.06.2008 08:46
Anon
If your appetite in US peasant history is whetted by the Famine of the Dust Bowl
26.06.2008 11:24
In 1934, retired Major General Smedley Butler of the U.S. marine corps - came forward and reported to the U.S. Congress that a group of wealthy pro-Fascist industrialists had been plotting to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a military coup. Even though the House Un-American Activities Committee corroborated most of the specifics of his testimony, no further action was taken.
This fascist coup d'etat plot is still mostly referred to as the "business plot"
And lest you think it was all old boring history like Agincourt - Mr Prescott Bush, father of George Herbert Bush and grandpop of George W. Bush was one of the people involved in the plot. It took BBC radio 4 until the 23rd of July 2007 to air that one. Just think, if broadcasts like "listen with mother" or "woman's hour" hadn't been rescheduled, the world's MW and SW listeners might not have dotted the dots.
Of course Prescott Bush had good reasons to install a fascist regime in Washington. He was up to his Yale eyebrows in business deals with Fritz Thyssen in Nazi Germany. So much so that when the "Trading With the Enemy Act" was passed in 1941 and he had not dumped shares and deals - the Bush dynasty in its egg, lost a fortune.
Before those dizzy heights of power were achieved, or the conditions were ready to ask the most decorated US soldier of his day to organise an army to oust Roosevelt, it was very convenient to see millions of US peasants starve.
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