Another online scandal has been gathering
pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia,
deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who
wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great
Depression of 1932-1933. Indignant bloggers
began to actively distribute the article on the
Russian part of a popular blog service known as
Livejournal. The above-mentioned article
triggered a heated debate.
The researcher touched upon quite a hot topic in
the article – the estimation of the number of
victims of the Great Depression in the USA. The
material presented in the article apparently
made Wikipedia’s moderators delete the piece
from the database of the online encyclopedia.
The researcher, Boris Borisov, in his article
titled “The American Famine” estimated the
victims of the financial crisis in the US at
over seven million people. The researcher also
directly compared the US events of 1932-1933
with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during
1932-1933.
In the article, Borisov used the official data
of the US Census Bureau. Having revised the
number of the US population, birth and date
rates, immigration and emigration, the
researcher came to conclusion that the United
States lost over seven million people during the
famine of 1932-1933.
“According to the US statistics, the US lost not
less than 8 million 553 thousand 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.
The researcher points out the movement of
population at this point: “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.”
Analyzing the period of the Great Depression in
the USA, the author notes a remarkable
similarity with events taking place in the USSR
during the 1930s. He even introduced a new term
for the USA – defarming – an analogue to
dispossession of wealthy farmers in the Soviet
Union. “Few people know about five million
American farmers (about 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,” the
article says.
“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.”
The then state of affairs in the US society can
be seen in Peter Jackson’s movie King Kong. The
movie starts with scenes of the Great Depression
and tells the story of an actress who did not
eat for three days and tried to steal an apple
from a street vendor. There is food in the city,
but many people had no money to buy it in
unemployment-paralyzed New York. People starve
in the streets against the background of stores
selling a variety of foodstuffs.
At the same time, the US government tried to get
rid of redundant foodstuffs, which 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,” the
researcher wrote.
The consequences of those policies were
predictable, the author of the article wrote.
“Here is what 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).”
So-called 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, Boris Borisov
wrote. 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 to count prisoners.
“Conditions and death rate at those works are to
be studied separately. A member of public works
would make $30, and pay $25 of taxes from this
amount. So a person could make only $5 for a
month of hard work in malarial swamps.”
The conditions, under which people were working
for food, could be compared to Stalin’s GULAG
camp.
“The Public Works Administration (PWA) bore a
striking resemblance to GULAG. The PWA was
chaired by “American Beria,” the Secretary of
Interior Affairs, Harold Ickes, who threw about
two million people into camps for the unemployed
youth,” Borisov wrote. “Harold LeClair Ickes
(1874–1952) later interned USA’s ethnic Japanese
in concentration camps. The first stage of the
operation took only 72 hours (1941-1942).
“In 1940, the US population was supposed to make
up at least 141.856 million people upon the
preservation of previous demographic trends. As
a matter of fact, the USA had the 131.409-strong
population in 1940, of which only 3.054 million
can be explained with changes in migration
dynamics. Thus, 7.394,000 people simply do not
exist as of 1940. There are no official
arguments to explain the phenomenon,” Boris
Borisov wrote.
It is worthy of note that modern-day Russian
patriotic historians reject methods of research
based on the general estimation of demographic
losses. They believe that demographic processes
are not linear and depend on a number of
factors. Such historians think that victims of
communism estimations made on the base of
demographic research works by Stephan Kurt and
Richard Pipes, which George Bush and Helen
Bonner announced at the opening of Victims of
Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, are
false.
On the other hand, these methods are widely used
in contemporary science of history. Ukrainian
historian Stanislav Kulchitsky used the method
to calculate the number of victims of the
Ukrainian Holodomor (famine), which was
subsequently officially recognized. Parliaments
of eleven countries that recognized Holodomor
use those numbers in their research works. To
crown it all, the US Congress and the European
Union also use Kulchitsky’s numbers considering
the problem.
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