Stalin's Ukraine famine killed millions

[The Blue Flower]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/12/holodomor-famine-ukraine-stalin/

“The famine is one of the things in the back of the heads of the Ukrainians who are fighting on the ground,” said Anne Applebaum, a former Washington Post columnist and the author of the 2017 book “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine,” which recounts memories like Petro Mostovyi’s.

“It’s a piece of history, and it’s remembered by Ukrainians as an attempt to eradicate” them, she said. “And the awareness that they might be eradicated ... again is part of why they’re fighting now.”

The historian Robert Conquest told Congress in 1986, “The Soviet assault on the peasantry, and on the Ukrainian nation, [in] 1930-33 was one of the largest and most devastating events in modern history.”

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Thirteen percent of the Ukrainian population perished, Applebaum wrote, as Stalin enforced “collectivization” — the seizure of private property, livestock and equipment by the state — and brutally punished peasants for failure to meet quotas by taking the last of their food.

...The result was a catastrophe.

“The horror, the exhaustion, the inhuman indifference to life and constant exposure to the language of hatred left their mark,” Applebaum wrote. “Combined with the complete absence of food they also produced, in the Ukrainian countryside, a very rare form of madness ... cannibalism.”

“Many survivors witnessed either cannibalism or, far more often, necrophagy, the consumption of corpses of people who had died of starvation,” she wrote.

One Ukrainian, Mykola Moskalenko, told of his village’s concern about a neighbor’s missing children: “We entered her house and asked her where her children were. She said that they died and she had buried them in the field. We went to the field but found nothing. They started a search of her home: the children had been cut up. … They asked why she had done this, and she answered that her children would not survive anyway, but this way she would.”


In Sumy province, about 200 miles east of Kyiv, a deranged man was arrested for eating his daughter and son, according to Applebaum. A neighbor noticed that he had seemed less swollen from hunger than others, and asked why.

[onecaliberal]

1. :😭😭😭🇺🇦

[Wounded Bear]

2. Ukraine got screwed by both sides in WWII...

both the Germans and the Soviets denied them any human rights or dinity.

[blue-wave]

3. And Pooty is attempting

to finish the job for Stalin. There is no doubt, Putin wants Ukraine eliminated, totally. That means genocide of its' people. He MUST be stopped!! There has to be at least one sane person in the Kremlin that can stop this madman.

[PortTack]

4. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[Raine]

5. So awful and I think that is Putin's plan now. 😓 🇺🇦 nt

[FakeNoose]

6. The old Soviet regime managed their agriculture by Central Committee "five year plans"

... that were totally FUBAR. On top of that they had awful droughts and weather disasters that ruined crops for several years in a row. It was mostly political mismanagement combined with bad luck, and then it was their failure to realize what they needed to do to repair the damage.

The several years of meager harvests were taken from the poor Ukrainians and give to the people of Moscow so THEY wouldn't starve. Instead the Ukrainians had to do without. It was robbing Peter to pay Paul. No wonder Ukraine has hated Russia all these years.