Dave Hodges: Depopulation Through Planned Governmental Starvation.

Thomas Jefferson: "If people let government decide what foods they eat, and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." The lessons of history clearly demonstrate that dictatorial regimes, whether they be Socialists, Communists and Marxists will not hesitate to use food as a weapon against their own people in order to solidify power and impose absolute autocratic control. Food can be withheld from the masses by preventing it from being grown and harvested, by contaminating it and rendering it unfit for human consumption, or by simply preventing food from being distributed to a targeted population. The two most notable examples of dictators using food as a weapon in order to destroy the free will of their people comes from the regimes of Stalin and Hitler. Joseph Stalin engaged in his own Soviet style Holocaust when, in 1932 and 1933, estimated six to 20 million people in the Ukraine died from starvation when Stalin implemented his prescription of "hope and change" policies in order to eliminate the Ukrainian's desire for becoming their own nation state. Upon assuming power, the Stalinist Communist regime nationalized the food industry, and forced all of the region's farms into collectives. Thus, Stalin's vision of the Holocaust came to fruition in what history has dubbed the "Holdomor," in which millions perished in only a two year period, when the Soviet government began to exterminate the Ukrainian population by taking control of food and food production. Hitler proclaimed that food could be used as a tool "to discipline the masses"and he did not hesitate to use the control of food as a type of carrot and stick, in which he would reward accomplishment, and punish failure, as well as to ferment preferential class distinctions, in which his armed forces received the largest food ration cards.