The Holodomor was the deliberate starvation and murder of upwards of seven million Ukrainians by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.  The Soviet Army seized food grown by the Ukrainians, as well as destroyed crops and executed farmers, leading to the man made famine.

Walter Duranty was the Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Times during the Holodomor.  The New York Times published nothing but denials of the genocide by famine reported by Duranty.  At best, Duranty was a coward and was  intimidated by Stalin into repeating Soviet propaganda to avoid punishment.  More likely, he was a pro-Soviet ideologue who lied to promote the Soviet system.  For this deception, the New York Times was awarded a Pulitzer.

Pro-Leftist fake news is nothing new.

Mao Zedong impemented the Great Leap Forward, which killed at least 45 million Chinese in as little as four years.  Many of those died of starvation.

The government managed collectivization of community farms that resulted in much of the food shortages echoes the rhetoric that we see in the Green New Deal and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s screeds against factory farming.

But like Stalin before him, Mao didn’t just mismanage farms into famine, he deliberately starved people as a form of political punishment.

One report dated Nov. 30, 1960, and circulated to the top leadership — most likely including Mao — tells how a man named Wang Ziyou had one of his ears chopped off, his legs tied up with iron wire and a 10-kilogram stone dropped on his back before he was branded with a sizzling tool. His crime: digging up a potato.

When a boy stole a handful of grain in a Hunan village, the local boss, Xiong Dechang, forced his father to bury his son alive on the spot. The report of the investigative team sent by the provincial leadership in 1969 to interview survivors of the famine records that the man died of grief three weeks later.

Starvation was the punishment of first resort. As report after report shows, food was distributed by the spoonful according to merit and used to force people to obey the party. One inspector in Sichuan wrote that “commune members too sick to work are deprived of food. It hastens their death.”

So we fast forward to Venezuela today, 2019.

The socialist leader Nicolas Maduro is employing the same tactics as his socials forebears in Russia and China.

The agricultural policies of socialist Venezuela has led to famine in that country.  This blog has covered in depth the reports from Venezuela of people eating garbage, rats, road kill, zoo animals, and stray pets.

With Maduro’s power being challenged, Maduro has ordered his thugs to burn food that is entering the country as humanitarian aid. Let me say that again, Maduro is burning the food being sent to his starving people as a way of breaking their resistance to his power.

So what does this have to do with the future of the United States of America?

Here is Bernie Sanders giving a lecture in which he openly supported Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution.

Video: @BernieSanders, University of Vermont, 1986, recalls his excitement watching Castro’s revolution “rising up against the ugly rich people.” & his sick feeling watching JFK speak out against communism in Cuba.

Also bashes the @nytimes for lying about communism. pic.twitter.com/OUqzLFbsvz

— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 21, 2019

Castro was a friend and mentor of Hugo Chavez, the previous socialist dictator of Venezuela whose policies led to the crisis Venezuela is having today.

Sanders also loved the Soviet Union, the one that starved seven million Ukrainians to death because they have a nice subway system.

Video 2. After his 1988 trip to the Soviet Union, @BernieSanders praises their (communist) youth programs and his wife Jane praises their (communist) system of not separating personal life and work. pic.twitter.com/Le8c87gG7f

— Reagan Battalion (@ReaganBattalion) February 20, 2019

Sander’s love of Castro has clearly translated into a love of Chavez and Maduro.

Florida Dems fume at Bernie Sanders for refusing to condemn Maduro as dictator

Some leading Florida Democrats are furious with Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders for declining to call disputed Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro a dictator or recognize opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s interim president.

Even Slate had to call out Bernie Sanders for his love of Castro and Maduro and other Central and South American dictators.

Sanders Has a Soft Spot for Latin American Strongmen

This isn’t the first time Sanders has chosen to tiptoe around Latin America’s despotic leftist regimes. In the ’80s, Sanders traveled to Nicaragua. Upon his return, he repeatedly defended the Sandinistas and their leader, Daniel Ortega. (Michael Moynihan offers an excellent overview of Sanders and Nicaragua here.) Sanders’ enthusiasm for both Ortega and the Castro regime in Cuba came back to haunt him during the 2016 presidential campaign. Three years ago, during a primary debate against Hillary Clinton hosted by Univision and the Washington Post in Miami, Sanders was shown a video shot in 1985 while he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, in which he spoke about Nicaragua and enthusiastically described how Fidel Castro had “totally transformed” Cuban society, providing education and health care. After Univision anchor María Elena Salinas followed up, Sanders acknowledged Cuba as an “authoritarian, undemocratic country” but then proceeded to praise the Castro regime, again, for its “advances in health care” (a dubious claim at best).

This is the same man that praised bread lines.

So crazy old uncle Bernie loves despots who starve their people as a tool of political oppression.

So what, he’s just a Sitting Senator from Vermont.

Except… 

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is leading the 2020 Democratic presidential field in the key primary state of New Hampshire, according to an Emerson College poll released Saturday.

The Emerson poll has Sanders, an independent, receiving 27 percent of the vote and former Vice President Joe Biden trailing closely behind at 25 percent. Biden has yet to officially declare his candidacy, but is considered likely to run and has already picked up endorsements from other prominent Democrats.

Democratic California Sen. Kamala Harris, who received 12 percent of the vote, was the only other Democrat to crack double digits in New Hampshire, according to the poll.

New Hampshire’s primary is generally the second contest after the Iowa caucuses, making it an early litmus test for presidential hopefuls.

Sanders would have beaten Hillary Clinton for the nomination if it weren’t for Clinton Chicanery.™

The popularity of Sanders has some believing he could be Trump in 2020.

He has the best name recognition among candidates and could take the youth vote.

So we have a potential next President who just loves dictators that impose famines.

“Feel the Bern” might end up being a reference to grain set on fire in Red States.

This is why God and our Founding Fathers gave us the Second Amendment, to make sure that no American was deliberately starved by his or her government.