I guess because history is full of this kinda stuff, sadly. In Croatian school system (unless you study history, I assume?) half the curriculum is world history and European history (with like... only a few hours of international History jammed together) and the other half is our country or local regional history that affect Croatia in some way.<p>I can't fathom where'd they'd slot all the horrendous historical anecdotes amongst all the horrendous historical anecdotes Croatia has been a part of. There would need to be a lot more history.<p>Also, there was a period of "recent history" (but maybe that was in highschool) that was more political/nuanced from what I very vaguely remember
Some famines are caused by misguided collectivization / socialism enforced by the state, such as Holodomor and this one:<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine</a><p>Others were caused by misguided protections of landlords / private property / capitalism enforced by the state, such as the Irish Potato Famine:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)</a><p>Still others by State Capitalism / imperialism of some kind, such as the famines under the British Raj and East India company — the one in Bengal was more recent than Holodomor even:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943</a><p>If you’re going to teach things, you need to find patterns and try to discern the root causes. Otherwise you’re just imparting biased propaganda to students.<p>How many people here knew about all these famines, not just Holodomor?
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It’s a socialist-policy induced famine.<p>Imagine a public school teacher having to explain this to a student without ideology getting in the way, their head would explode.