Russia has a world hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve out much of the developing world as the next stage of his war in Europe, Yale professor Timothy Snyder wrote in a series of tweets..

In normal times, Ukraine is a leading food exporter. Russian naval blockade now prevents Ukraine from exporting grain. If the Russian blockade continues, tens of millions of tons of food will rot in silos and tens of millions of people in Africa and Asia will starve, he wrote..

" We also forget how central food is to politics.. Some historical examples might help,"

The idea that controlling Ukrainian grain could change the world is not new.. Both Stalin and Hitler wanted to do it, recalls Professor Snyder.

For Stalin, Ukrainian black soil should be used to build the industrial economy of the USSR. In fact, collectivized agriculture killed about four million Ukrainians. It is noteworthy that when people began to die en masse, Stalin blamed the Ukrainians themselves. Those who paid attention to the famine were called “Nazis” by Soviet propaganda, he notes..

Real Nazis Had Kindred Ideas. They liked the idea of \u200b\u200bcontrolling Ukrainian agriculture. This was in fact the main goal of Hitler. He wanted to redirect Ukrainian grain from the Soviet Union to Germany, hoping to starve out millions of Soviet citizens..

World War II was fought over Ukraine and to a large extent in Ukraine between dictators who wanted to control the food supply.

Russia's Politics of Memory Prepared the Way for the 21st Century Famine Plan. Russians are told that Stalin's famine was an accident, and Ukrainians are Nazis. This justifies theft and blockade among the Russians themselves.

" Firstly, this is part of a large-scale attempt to destroy the Ukrainian state by stopping its exports,"

Putin's famine plan also aims to create a migration crisis. People from North Africa and the Middle East are suffering - areas that Ukraine usually feeds. This will lead to instability in the EU, warns Snyder.

Finally, and worst of all, global famine is a necessary backdrop for Russia's propaganda campaign against Ukraine, notes the professor.. Actual mass death required as backdrop for propaganda.

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Russia intends to starve Asians and Africans to win the war in Europe. This is a new level of colonialism and the last section of the policy of hunger, sums up Timothy Snyder.

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Head of Presidential Office Andriy Yermak explained how the world can avoid a food crisis. There are three steps for this: military convoys for ships with grain, strengthening anti-Russian sanctions, supplying Ukraine with the necessary weapons.

Recall that the Russian Federation is blocking the export of grain from Ukrainian ports and, meanwhile, is stealing elevators in the occupied territories..

Under pressure from the world community to unblock sea routes from our country, it became known that Ankara and Moscow reached a preliminary agreement on the supply of Ukrainian agricultural products through the Black Sea. At the same time, these states did not coordinate issues with Kyiv, and Turkey itself is one of the countries that buy grain stolen by Russians in Ukraine.