A brief history of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine

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The Holodomor, or “murder by starvation”, was a state-engineered famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932–33 which killed an estimated 3.9 million people. Devised by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, the Holodomor crushed the spirit of the Ukrainian peasantry and ensured it would never again rebel against communist rule on the scale seen in the 1920s & 1930s

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In the spring of 1933, when Ukrainian roads and peasant farmsteads were littered with dead bodies, Stalin finally decided to lower the deadly grain-delivery target of 6.6 million tonnes for the Ukrainian republic. He even dispatched some relief, which ended up mostly in the hands of local famine enforcers now installed as bosses on the collective farms and in state-owned tractor depots servicing them. The spirit of the Ukrainian peasantry had been broken, and it would never again rebel against communist rule on the same scale as in the early 1920s or during the collectivisation campaign.

https://www.historyextra.com/period/20th-century/holodomor-soviet-ukraine-history-facts-deaths-genocide-cause/

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1. Watch Mr. Jones

for the full enraging story.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Jones_(2019_film)

Mr Jones (Polish: Obywatel Jones, lit. 'Citizen Jones'; Ukrainian: Ціна правди, lit. 'The Price of Truth') is a 2019 biographical thriller film[8] directed by Agnieszka Holland. It was selected to compete for the Golden Bear at the 69th Berlin International Film Festival.[9] The film loosely tells the story of Gareth Jones, a journalist from Wales, who in 1933 travels to the Soviet Union and uncovers the truth about the Holodomor, the devastating famine in Ukraine in which millions died.[10][11]


Producer Andrea Chalupa by the way does the Gaslight Nation podcast with Sarah Kendzior.