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Originally Posted by PeterKrackpot
No, I am saying the response to the potato famine was their fault. They did the same things the Russians did.
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Really? They came and confiscated every seed the Irish had? Also, so the historical sources lie when they said the British began to import cornmeal from America to relieve the hunger? (The fact that this did not help as corn is an incredibly non-nutritious plant is beyond the point - they had no means of knowing that, then).
You certainly can call the British response to the famine "slow," "ineffective," even "uncompassionate" - but at least there was some response, rather than
heartless continuation of the original plan of decreasing the number of Ukrainian farmers via man-made hunger that was implemented by Stalin.