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The causes of the Holodomor, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine during 1932 and 1933 that resulted in the death of around 3–5 million people, are the subject of scholarly and political debate, particularly surrounding the Holodomor genocide question.
The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
While the Moscow government recognized the famine in Russia, Soviet authorities paid little attention to the 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine. Moreover, Vladimir Lenin ordered to move trains full of grain from Ukraine to the Volga region, Moscow, and Petrograd, to combat starvation there; 1,127 trains were sent between fall 1921 and August 1922. [20]
Ukraine has been a constant target of foreign aggression, but nothing is more deeply seared in the Ukrainian memory than the forced famine. Its name combines the Ukrainian words for “hunger ...
The war in Ukraine is not the first to contribute to famine. One of modern history's most noted examples also involved Russia and Ukraine How a Post-War Famine in Russia and Ukraine Shaped the ...
In: The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. The Soviet Famine of 1946–47 in Global and Historical Perspective; Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921–1933 28 Sep 2017 "Ukraine (Famine)" Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. . Retrieved June 22, 2022, from ...
The Soviet famine of 1946–1947 in Ukraine was a major famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1946 to 1947 caused by forced export of grain and foodstuffs to other republics of the Soviet Union and to allied countries, [1] part of the Soviet famine of 1946–1947.
With the invasion of Ukraine launched last month by Russian President Vladimir Putin — an admirer of Stalin — memories of the Holodomor have come into sharp relief for Ukrainians, especially ...