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The Soviet famine of 1930–1933 was a famine in the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, including Ukraine and different parts of Russia, including Kazakhstan, [6] [7] [8] Northern Caucasus, Kuban Region, Volga Region, the South Urals, and West Siberia.
Major causes include the 1932–33 confiscations of grain and other food by the Soviet authorities which contributed to the famine and affected more than forty million people, especially in the south on the Don and Kuban areas and in Ukraine, where by various estimates millions starved to death or died due to famine related illness (the event ...
Although famine, allegedly caused by collectivization, raged in many parts of the Soviet Union in 1932, special and particularly lethal policies, according to Yale historian Timothy Snyder in his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), were adopted in and largely limited to Ukraine at the end of 1932 and 1933. [37]
A notorious Soviet decree known as "Five Stalks of Grain," issued in 1932, designated taking food from a farm as theft of “socialist property.” Two thousand Ukrainians would be executed for ...
The Soviet famine of 1932–1933 swept across many different regions of the Soviet Union. During this time, it is estimated that around six to seven million people starved to death. [ 117 ] On 7 August 1932, a new decree drafted by Stalin ( Law of Spikelets ) specified a minimum sentence of ten years or execution for theft from collective farms ...
In this poster’s quote his references to many non-Ukrainian areas hit by famine have been omitted and the pan-Soviet thrust of his March 29, 1933, press release in Berlin suppressed. By 1932, Jones had been to the Soviet Union twice, for three weeks in the summer of 1930 and for a month in the summer of 1931. [ 4 ]
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin; Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin; Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Vyacheslav Molotov
1932–1933: Soviet famine of 1932–1933, including famine in Ukraine, and famine in Kazakhstan, caused by Soviet collectivization policy, abnormal cold period, [125] and bad harvests in the years of 1931–1932. [126] Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, and Kazakh ASSR: 5,000,000 [126] – 7,000,000 [127] 1939–1952