What is one reason a political leader might engineer a famine? To get credit later for ending the famine.
As an experiment.
To weaken a region they want political control over.
To lower the cost of food.

To weaken a region they want political control over

Explanation:

Take the Ukraine Famine for example. The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932–1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization. Stalin was determined to crush all vestiges of Ukrainian nationalism.

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