Putin's plan for famine works on three levels.
Russia has a plan for world hunger . Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve most of the developing world as the next stage of his war in Europe, wrote in a series of tweets Yale University professor Timothy Snyder.
In ordinary times, Ukraine is a leading exporter of food. Russia's naval blockade is currently preventing Ukraine from exporting grain. If the Russian blockade continues, tens of millions of tons of food will rot in silos and tens of millions of people in Africa and Asia will starve, he wrote.
The idea that control over Ukrainian grain can change the world is not new. Both Stalin and Hitler wanted to do this, Professor Snyder recalls.
For Stalin, Ukrainian chernozem was to be used to build an industrial economy for the USSR. In fact, collectivized agriculture has killed about four million Ukrainians. It is noteworthy that when people began to die en masse, Stalin blamed the Ukrainians themselves. Soviet propaganda called those who paid attention to the famine “Nazis,” he said.
The real Nazis had related ideas. They liked the idea of controlling Ukrainian agriculture. This was, in fact, Hitler's main goal. He wanted to smuggle Ukrainian grain from the Soviet Union to Germany, hoping to starve millions of Soviet citizens.
World War II was fought for Ukraine and largely in Ukraine, between dictators who wanted to control food supplies.
Russian memory policy paved the way for a plan for the 21st century famine. Russians are told that Stalin's famine was a coincidence, and Ukrainians are Nazis. This justifies theft and blockade among Russians themselves.
“I believe that Putin's plan for famine works on three levels. First, it is part of a large-scale attempt to destroy the Ukrainian state by stopping its exports,” the professor tweeted.
Putin's famine plan also aims to create a migration crisis. People from North Africa and the Middle East, areas normally fed by Ukraine, will suffer. This will lead to instability in the EU, warns Snyder.
Finally, worst of all, world hunger is a necessary background for Russia's propaganda campaign against Ukraine, the professor said. Actual mass deaths are needed as a background for propaganda.
“When food riots break out and famine spreads, Russian propaganda will blame Ukraine and call for territorial Russia's achievements in Ukraine and lift all sanctions, “the professor added.
Russia plans to starve Asians and Africans to win the war in Europe. This is a new level of colonialism and the last chapter of the famine policy, sums up Timothy Snyder.
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OP Chairman Andriy Yermak explained how the world can avoid the food crisis . There are three steps to do this: military convoys for grain ships, strengthening anti-Russian sanctions, and supplying Ukraine with the necessary weapons.
We will remind, the Russian Federation blocks export from the Ukrainian ports of grain and meanwhile steals elevators in the occupied territories.
Under pressure of the world society for unblocking of sea ways from our country it became known that Ankara and Moscow have reached a preliminary agreement on the supply of Ukrainian agricultural products across the Black Sea. At the same time, these states did not coordinate issues with Kyiv , but directly Turkey is one of the countries that buys grain stolen by Russians in Ukraine.
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