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Пишет llsnk ([info]llsnk)
@ 2015-03-18 15:14:00


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Holy Cow
...Ireland in 1845 was as densely populated as Java is now, with the same pattern of intense rural settlement and a population of nine million. By 1900 the population of Ireland was about three million. Nassau Senior, the leading British political economist at the time of the Famine, worried that it “…would not kill more than one million people, and that would scarcely be enough to do any good.” Moving right along, we have Lord Trevelyan, who called the Famine “…a judgment of God upon an indolent people,” which “we must not ameliorate overmuch”...

Saw an English girl's LJ once, she wrote a thesis or suchlike on persecution of Roma in the Third Reich. Mentioned the Famine to her, she swore at me and blocked me. Those English, sheesh...


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(Анонимно)
2015-03-19 00:56 (ссылка)
Эмиграция учитывается?

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[info]llsnk
2015-03-19 13:21 (ссылка)
Of 9 mil, 1/3 dead, 1/3 fled.

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