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A man-caused disaster....
Ukrainian Famine/Genocide 1932-33
In the spring of 1933, the rural population of Ukraine, its peasants, were dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, half of them children. The land that was known worldwide as the breadbasket of Europe was being ravaged by a man-made famine of unprecedented scale. It was engineered by Stalin and his hangmen, to teach Ukraine’s independent farmers “a lesson they would not forget” for resisting collectivization, which meant giving up their land and livestock to the state. (Ukraine was then under Soviet domination). Moreover, it was meant to deal “a crushing blow” to any national aspirations of the Ukrainian people, 80 percent of whom were peasant farmers.
In less than 18 months, this famine genocide took the lives of up to 10,000,000 innocent men, women and children in Ukraine and in the mostly ethnically Ukrainian areas of the northern Caucasus. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was denying the famine, and exporting millions of tons of grain from Ukraine – enough to have fed the entire population.
Ukrainian Famine/Genocide 1932-33