How 11 Million Americans Starved To Death In The Great Depression.
Is America still covering up one of the great famines in world history? Here's what we know..
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. — Mark Twain
Russian statistical demographer, Prof. Boris Borisov, used Frank Dikotter’s techniques on the US population before and after the Great Depression and found that seven million Americans starved to death. Is America covering up this tragedy, or is there another explanation?
Based on previous demographic trends, the US expected a population of 142-million in 1940, but it reached only 132-million, of which only 3-million can be explained by migration dynamics. What happened to the 7.4-million missing people?
American Famine
According to the US statistics, the US lost 8, 553,000 people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly between 1930-1931: the indices drop and stay on the same level for ten years. There can no explanation to this phenomenon found in the extensive text of the report by the US Department of Commerce “Statistical Abstract of the United States,” the author wrote.
A lot more people left the country than arrived during the 1930s – the difference is estimated at 93,309 people, whereas 2.960,782 people arrived in the country a decade earlier. Well, let’s correct the number of total demographic losses in the USA during the 1930s by 3,054 people.
There is a remarkable similarity with events taking place in the USSR during the 1930s. Few people know about five million American farmers (a million families) whom banks ousted from them lands because of debts. The US government did not provide them with land, work, social aid, pension – nothing. Every sixth American farmer was affected by famine. People were forced to leave their homes and go to nowhere without any money and any property. They found themselves in the middle of nowhere enveloped in massive unemployment, famine and gangsterism.
Simultaneously, the US government destroyed foodstuffs that vendors could not sell. Market rules were observed strictly: unsold goods should always be categorized as redundant and they could not be given away to the poor because it could cause damage to businesses. A variety of methods was used to destroy redundant food. They burnt crops, drowned them in the ocean or plowed 10 million hectares of harvesting fields. About 6.5 million pigs were killed at that time.
A child recollected about those years: “We changed our usual food for something for available. We used to eat bush leaves instead of cabbage. We ate frogs too. My mother and my older sister died during a year. (Jack Griffin).
Public works introduced by President Roosevelt became a salvation for a huge number of jobless and landless Americans. However, the salvation was only a phantom. The works conducted under the aegis of the Public Works Administration and the Civil Works Administration were about building channels, roads or bridges in remote, wild and dangerous territories. Up to 3.3 million people were involved in those works at a time, whereas the total number of people amounted to 8.5 million, not counting prisoners. Conditions and death rates at those works are to be studied separately.
A member of public workers would make $30 and pay $25 of taxes from this. So a person could make only $5 for a month of hard work in malarial swamps, conditions comparable to Stalin’s GULAG. The Public Works Administration (PWA) bore a striking resemblance to GULAG. The PWA was chaired by “American Beria,” Secretary of Interior Affairs, Harold Ickes, who threw about two million people into camps for the unemployed youth. “Ickes (1874–1952) later interned USA’s ethnic Japanese in concentration camps in only 72 hours (1941-1942).
Famine Fact Check
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