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I’m glad you’re able to glean that from one photo.
I mean, it's the Soviet Union. Clearly it wasn't forced, and if it was, they were reactionaries and deserved to be genocided. /s
oh yeah my fucking grandma just LOVED the russian concentration camp after WW2. all the rape and potato peels was like a stay in tahiti, i bet.
these fucking idiots.
Tahiti is just capitalist propaganda. All comrades love potato peels.
Probably a minority opinion but potato peels are far and away the best part. Scrubbing them clean is annoying, especially since they’re cleaned and then re-soiled by the companies packing them, but they have the best taste and highest micronutrient concentration in the potato. Not defending atrocities, just stating a culinary preference in a modern western country. Stalin was awful.
Are the peels eaten in the east? I remember telling some Eastern European friend that for more recipes I usually keep the peel and eat it and some told something on the lines of that only being possible because in west Europe we ate “Young” potatoes, while they grew them for longer time and the peel becomes thicker and less palatable. It was long ago, might be misremembering
I imagine it has quite a bit to do with the variety of potato grown as russet potato skins can be surprisingly thick and Yukon gold are razor thin. That said, both are delicious when cooked correctly but disgusting otherwise. Russian potatoes look similar to russet potatoes, for all the good that information will do you.
Potatoes are native to the Andes where there are literally hundreds of different varieties. Every valley has its own landrace variety.
That’s probably the most delicious fact I’ll learn this week!
I mean, I have no idea what's actually happening in that photo. Maybe they are being forced. but there are no visible military and seems like regular civilians in the crowd. Also, they're piled on top of the train, so escape would be easy
Yeah so you should probably read about what you’re taking about before you say a bunch of dumb shit.
I wasn't saying they were or weren't being forced, just that the photo doesn't make it appear that way 🤷
It could simply be a train unrelated to the event described in OP's headline. I honestly wouldn't know. Just commented that it looks rather different than I'd imagine