In 1929, Joseph Stalin was hell-bent on getting the farmers to forfeit their rights to own their farms. It was an intentional, man made, planned from the top catastrophe that claimed the lives of between four and ten million people. It was engineered by Joseph Stalin to crush resistance to forced collectivisation of agriculture.
The state would gain ownership of their land and they would end up working for the government.
In order to carry out his plan, he ordered that the grain production regions of Russia and Kazakhstan be the focus of his attention.
Accordingly, a certain percentage of their produce would be funneled to the state. If any farmers resisted they were punished. Why does this sound very sinister to me today on a very deep rooted personal level?
In his book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, historian Timothy Snyder refers to the widespread cannibalism during the disaster:
The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did.
Like the childhood rhyme " Stack on the mill, more on still ", the state demanded more and more of the cut from the farmers until it meant that there was so little grain left for the farmers that they were starving. By 1932, farmers were required to give 60% of their grain to the state. If they failed to meet their quota, they were imprisoned. The prison camps were overflowing. The people were starving.
The term Holodomor a combination of the Ukrainian words holod (hunger), and mor (extermination). The famine resulted in the deaths of millions of people by 1934.
Surely this is a warning to Western nations that our agricultural sectors are precious and worthy of protection above all else? That a nation that cannot feed itself is a nation in peril?
Over the past several decades or more, our farmers in Australia have been ravaged by drought. They sat helplessly as water flowed through their land and their stock died of thirst. Why? Because of something that happened in 2007.
In 2007, the then Minister for the Environment Malcolm Turnbull oversaw the passing of the 2007 Water Act which separated water from the land. Water, in a drought-plagued continent like Australia, became a tradeable commodity.
By 2019, Australian water was 10% owned by China.
Sources: Register of Foreign Ownership of Agricultural Land 2018 and Register of Foreign Ownership of Water Entitlements 2018, Australian Taxation Office, Foreign Investment Review Board Annual Report 2017–18
- 85% of foreign-owned land is held for livestock purposes.
- 9.4% of the Murray Darling Basin’s water entitlements have a level of foreign interest ownership.
Interestingly, 18 % of Queensland's water is owned by foreign interests. I wonder if this is why there is a reluctance to build dams? It will only enrich foreigners? Who knows?
In times of hardship, farmers have to shoot their stock, their breeding stock and weep as their families suffer the cruel and agonising realisation that they could lose their livelihoods and homes.
Our land has been snapped up by Chinese investors. Our dairy farms closed down because it cost more to produce milk than they could sell it for.
While the government had the so-called watchdog of the Foreign Investment Review Board, the swoop of the overseas vultures continued and our country is being " sold down the river " with barely an eyelid blinked. Just look at home ownership........
If One Nation could have taken roots, Australia would not be in this mess it's in with all the foreign ownership. Hands up anyone who thinks that John Howard was a nasty little bugger for not having seen Pauline Hanson as the perfect person to lead the Libs/ Nats in the Senate? What a missed opportunity that was. Instead, he sent in Tony Abbott to do his dirty work and destroy her.
But back to the article....
Our rural sector has been under attack by nature, but with a little bit of help from the government. Canberra is generous with their thoughts and prayers, but it seems the bush and the regions are not high on their list of priorities. They are too busy welcoming Gazans to worry about a few pesky Australians.
For some reason, it is more important to worry about gender quotas and shutting down mining opportunities in Parliament House than spare a thought for our rural sector or fixing the Bruce Highway.
Our charity is being spread far and wide with lavish gifts of millions to overseas nations. Yet our bushies are largely ignored.
We are even pledging land to create electricity for Singapore on Australian soil. What insanity is this?
It is almost as if they want the rural sector to be sold off to China. Or other nations at the expense of our own people. By our own government.
Just like our water was back in 2007.
Which brings me back to the beginning. The Holodomor horror that was inflicted by Stalin back 90 odd years ago.
It is said that our Nation was born on the sheep's back.
Our government, past and present, has brought starvation to our stock and brought our farmers to their knees.
Covid broke the back of our economy due to government mismanagement.
China must be patting themselves on the back for having bought our water, our land, our infrastructure and our ports. All without firing a shot.
And all with our government's consent and support.
Over the past few years, America was cheated of elected governance and, instead, given selected governance. The once surging American economy is now in tatters. The Middle East is a powder keg.
All around the western world we are witnessing a complete meltdown of our civil liberties and our traditional values.
But I have to wonder how the leftie luvvies in the cities will feel when, like Venezuela, there is nothing to eat and, unless you are employed by the state, there will be no work.
The mincing lefties will have no champers, no avocadoes and no milk for their lattes. Even their almond milk will be gone.
Perhaps their latest craze to ban oil and coal and meat will be fulfilled. It will be back to walking ( the horses will be dead of starvation or eaten ) and they will be dressed in rags and praying for a locust plague. After all, that might be all that is left to eat.
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