a Twitter thread from @alimjanovitch

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Holodomor in the USA in the 1930s.

Killed millions of people.

But of those who died of starvation, of course, there was no Rockefeller, Morgan, Hoover, Capone, Dupont, Bush, Ford and other exploiters...

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African American workers fired to allow white workers access to their jobs. Even jobs traditionally held by black workers, such as household servants or janitors, were now going to whites.

By 1932, approximately one-half of all black Americans were unemployed.

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Mass vagrancy, poverty, and large numbers of abandoned children characterised the 1930s.

Entire cities were abandoned, their population gone in search for food and work.

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In the early 1930s, due to the large number of people without an income and an absence of social assistance services, Famine quickly spread to the United States.

People began to die en masse ...

#Holodomor #USA

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A child’s memories of that time:

“We had to substitute our favourite food for anything that was available... instead of cabbage, we had to eat leaves from bushes, we had to eat frogs instead of meat... in a month my mother and older sister died...” (Jack Griffin)

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