The story of the Holodomor in Ukraine.
From a friend who is Ukrainian:
“For my friends that may not know...
🇺🇦 At the entrance to the memorial park in Kyiv, there is a sculpture of an extremely thin girl with a very sad look holding a handful of wheat in her hands. Behind her back is the Candle of Remembrance. This monument commemorates the Holodomor.
What is the Holodomor?
After the end of the First World War, Ukraine was an independent state, but in 1919 the Soviet Union "sucked" it into the community of Soviet states. The Ukrainians considered themselves a Central European country, like Poland, and not an Eastern European country like Russia. They tried to restore Ukraine's independence.
In 1932, not wanting to lose control of Europe's main source of grain, Stalin took away the grain-producing land from the Ukrainian peasants and also all the grain, creating an artificial famine. The goal was to "teach Ukrainians to be smart" so that they would no longer oppose Moscow. The people who produced the most grain in Europe were left without a crumb of bread.
The peak of the Holodomor was in the spring of 1933. In Ukraine at that time, 17 people died of hunger every minute, more than 1,000 every hour, and almost 24,500 every day! People were literally starving to death in the streets.
Stalin settled Russians into the emptied Ukrainian villages. During the next census, there was a huge shortage of population. Therefore, the Soviet government annulled the census, destroyed the census documents, and the census takers were shot or sent to the gulag, in order to hide the truth.
Today, 28 countries around the world present the Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians. You couldn't learn about in school because almost all evidence was destroyed and victims were covered up for decades. To this day mass graves are being uncovered.
Books are now being written. Movies are now being made.
The Holodomor at that time broke the Ukrainian resistance, but it made the desire for Ukraine's independence from Russia eternal.”
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This is why the Ukrainians fight Putin (admirer of Stalin) and will finish the job... Still don't understand your intent.
Not trying to be pedantic, I hope! 
but I never knew it had a proper name to commemorate it.
Now, thanks to you, SoonerPride, and your Ukrainian friend, I do.
Thank you for posting this. 
(The Viburnum opulus red berries symbolize 'one's home and native land, blood, and family roots.' The Protectress Spirit in Kiev's Independence Square holds these same berry swags, and their symbolism is deeply rooted in ancient beliefs.)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska have visited the Holodomor Memorial to Victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 in Washington, the presidential press service has reported.
According to the report, the head of state and his wife put symbolic sheaves of wheat at the foot of the Memorial. After that, members of the official delegation of Ukraine honored the victims of the terrible tragedy of the Ukrainian people.
The Holodomor Memorial was unveiled in downtown Washington in November 2015.
So sorry. As a woman of color with Asian, European, African and Native American blood flowing my veins & a descendant of enslaved & oppressed people & the wife of a Bohemian Czech who has NO LOVE for putinistas, stalinists OR nazi meatheads, I am so sorry but happy they survived it and you're here to rememmber and retell the history and cautionary tale. PREACH as the child of real life heroes...NEVER AGAIN will good people of the world allow this to happen without a fight to the death!
