• invalidusernamelol [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      The genocide was to prevent famine within the imperial core. The grain shortages were more pronounced in England so their solution was to starve their subjects to protect the profitable labor within England itself.

      Even worse was that there was shortage, but at any given point there was enough grain to prevent famin. But distributing that grain would destabilize the grain price and throw the imperial financial markets into chaos as grain was meant to be a stable investment.

      So millions die to protect the line. Nothing ever changes.

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        The genocide was too prevent famine within the imperial core. The grain shortages were more pronounced in England so their solution was to starve their subjects to protect the profitable labor within England itself.

        We talking about the indian or irish one? Because as far as I know the UK was stockpiling food while people in India were starving

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          Yeah, because the was a shortage, but they need to keep grain price stable. If they didn’t stockpile and allowed India to keep all the grain they needed to avert famine there would have been starvation in England.

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            Ah okay yeah. I’d always thought they stockpiled it for fear of running out (even though I think they had 3x the calculated needed amount) if the germans could blockade them again or something. It’s been a while since I learnt about it, so the facts are quite hazy. Thanks for sharing some history with me!