Russia and Communism

Well there are memories of old Czech community living in Ukraine made known after 1989. Soldiers were taking all food from households and only possibility how to not starve to death was hiding food. Claiming that memories of people who lost majority of family are like fake moon landing is rather cynical. They maybe hadnt whole picture, but the practice of "killing them by starve" was quite widespread to be just ignored.
 
I always saw the government's responsibility for the Ukrainian famine of 1930's and the Irish famine of 1840's as being fairly similar. IMO neither the British, nor the Soviets actually commited genocide, neither did they conscionously "orchestrate" anything, but they were still responsilbe in a very large part.

This is so true, Capitalist-orchestrated famines are totally ignored in history but the famines in the USSR and PRC get tons of attention. Of course, one shouldn't belittle those who lost their lives under Stalin and Mao but I don't think the Irish and Indians felt any better starving to death because grain prices were driven up than the Ukrainians did because Stalin wanted to forcefully collectivize the peasants. Heck, there was a massive famine in UK-occupied Indian Bengal that killed a comparable figure to the Ukranian famine, but it doesn't get the same attention. I don't know if this is out of racism, or an active propaganda effort to whitewash the activities of the two "democracies" during WWII. Economic autocracy tends to produce problems like this, be it a racist market plutocracy like the European Empires of old or a paranoid statist bureaucracy like Stalin's Russia.

As for the initial question, I agree with the sentiment that a state similar to the USSR would have formed under a non-Bolshevik movement, but perhaps after an even bloodier civil war. The social conditions in the late 1910s were particularly suited to a Leftist movement, especially due to the hopeless Imperialistic war.
 
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