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ITT: a bunch of lying ideologues that deny basic historical realities like the deliberate engineering of the holodomor or the brutal repression of dissent in soviet states
Maybe if "basic history" means "literally never read a book about it by a historian". Your description is a debunked fringe theory that was only ever entertained by a single serious historian and he was a big Cold Warrior that embarrassed himself.
You should begin your education by reading Wheatcroft and Davies.
Do you have a single source to back this up?
You should be embarassed. The consensus even among neoliberal historians (and not neoliberal pop-historians like Applebaum) is that it was not "engineered" and the Soviets did not desire to starve the soviet peasantry in the area because that's a hysterical double-holocaust myth.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/