About those famines, I need to make a point again.
- The irish famine was caused by a bacteria that attacked the only potato type of crop they had on the island. A bad plurarity of crops and bad prepareness for the famine, as well as a low help provided by the central government of London (Ireland was a part of the UK) caused the massive ammount of deaths.
- The holomodor was a famine caused by a mismanagement of human ressources by the soviet administrators in order to reach quotas of productions that couldn't be reached while keeping the local population fed. I don't believe it was a planned massacre, but collectivism, the stalin policy of ignoring local complains and the lack of reports from administrators ammoung the deaths in the ukrainian region caused a shortage problem to become a catastrophy.
Both famines can be blamed on the governments. But the primary reason of the Irish famine was a plague, and the primary reason of the Holomodor was the official policies of the country.
It's all disputed, but part of Wikipedia's object is not to present any one (biased) outlook on something.
Edited 3/10/2016 08:21:30