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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.
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 Ukrainian killer famine should be considered an act of genocide. There is enough evidence – if not overwhelming evidence – to indicate that Stalin and his lieutenants knew that the widespread famine in the USSR in 1932–33 hit Ukraine particularly hard, and that they were ready to see millions of Ukrainian peasants die as a result.
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 ...
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]
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, ...
Pogroms During the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920 antisemitic massacres of Jewish villages in Ukraine as well as southern Russia by the Russian White Forces and Ukrainian People’s Army. These pogroms claimed up to 250,000 Jewish lives. Holodomor, 1932–1933 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine and its surroundings perpetrated by the Soviet Union
The International Commission of Inquiry Into the 1932–1933 Famine in Ukraine was set up in 1984 and was initiated by the World Congress of Free Ukrainians to study and investigate the 1932-1933 man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine. [1] [2] [3] Members of Commission selected and invited by World Congress of Free Ukrainians. [4]