I don’t have the time or energy to pick apart every bit of nonsense, but this one is annoying me so…
They absolutely destroyed a huge portion of their agricultural base with inept initiatives […] ended up causing multiple great famines.
Not multiple: one each in the USSR and China. And these were the last famines, after centuries of famines being a common occurrence in Tzarist Russia and Imperial China. These two famines happened during droughts that occurred not long after revolutionary wars that upended the countries—hardly ideal conditions. The USSR and Communist China ended the famines.
I don’t have the time or energy to pick apart every bit of nonsense, but this one is annoying me so…
Not multiple: one each in the USSR and China. And these were the last famines, after centuries of famines being a common occurrence in Tzarist Russia and Imperial China. These two famines happened during droughts that occurred not long after revolutionary wars that upended the countries—hardly ideal conditions. The USSR and Communist China ended the famines.