n the magazine History Ireland (1997, issue 5, pp. 32–36), Christine Kinealy, a Great Hunger scholar, lecturer, and Drew University professor, relates her findings: Almost 4,000 vessels carried food from Ireland to the ports of Bristol, Glasgow, Liverpool, and London during 1847, when 400,000 Irish men, women, and children died of starvation and related diseases. She also writes that Irish exports of calves, livestock (except pigs), bacon, and ham actually increased during the Famine. This food was shipped under British military guard from the most famine-stricken parts of Ireland; Ballina, Ballyshannon, Bantry, Dingle, Killala, Kilrush, Limerick, Sligo, Tralee, and Westport. A wide variety of commodities left Ireland during 1847, including peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, lard, honey, tongues, animal skins, rags, shoes, soap, glue, and seed. The most shocking export figures concern butter. Butter was shipped in firkins, each one holding 9 imperial gallons; 41 litres. In the first nine months of 1847, 56,557 firkins (509,010 imperial gallons; 2,314,000 litres) were exported from Ireland to Bristol, and 34,852 firkins (313,670 imperial gallons; 1,426,000 litres) were shipped to Liverpool, which correlates with 822,681 imperial gallons (3,739,980 litres) of butter exported to England from Ireland during nine months of the worst year of the Famine.[81] The problem in Ireland was not lack of food, which was plentiful, but the price of it, which was beyond the reach of the poor.[82
Let's justify atrocities
Irish coastal settlements weren't that badly affected by the famine
Though not many Irish lived in coastal villages by that stage because there was no wood to make boats out of, the British had cleared all of Ireland's forests for farmland.
Belgians literally din' du nuffin in the Congo.
It was all just Leo, dey is good boys
Technically correct.
You can't possibly pay people enough to get them to travel down a dirt road to the middle of nowhere in the South and voluntarily pick cotton in the middle of July and still be able to turn a profit unless you have them living in squalor like the sharecroppers.
Agricultural work in subtropical areas didn't become humane until harvesting was mostly mechanized and modern transportation allowed workers to travel freely and earn more money.
That's why it's so great
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>leading to the loss of many Polish lives
Unlike the actual history of Soviet occupied Poland, which was a safe, happy place to be during the war.
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Blah blah muh occupation.
But really, I just like the idea that you can take some steel pipe, some sugar, and some stump remover, and create a national security threat that costs literally hundreds of millions of dollars to deal with.