“From 1931 to 1934 we had great harvests. The weather conditions were great. However, all the grain was taken from us. People searched the fields for mice burrows hoping to find measly amounts of grain stored by mice…”

(as remembered by Mykola Karlosh)

“I’m asking for your permission to advance me any amount of grain. I’m completely sick. I don’t have any food. I’ve started to swell up and I can hardly move my feet. Please don’t refuse me or it will be too late.”

(From a petition to the authorities by P. Lube)

This was the first instance of a peacetime genocide in history. It took the extraordinary form of an artificial famine deliberately created by the ruling powers. This savage combination of words for the designation of a crime — “an artificial, deliberately planned famine” — is still incredible to many people throughout the world, but indicates the uniqueness of the tragedy of 1933, which is unparalleled, for a time of peace, in the number of victims it claimed.

  • Wasyl Hryshko, survivor of the Holodomor. Hryshko, Wasyl. The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933. Toronto: Bahriany Foundation, Suzhero, Dobrus, 1983, 107
  • Egriaga@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    010·
    12 days ago

    Even Russia admitted it was man made

    Statement by the Delegation of the Russian Federation: Russia’s position on the Holodomor issue remains unchanged. Millions of citizens of many different nationalities have fallen victim to truly tragic events of 1932-1933 and, accordingly, it would be unfair to talk about the destruction of only ethnically Ukrainian citizens. The famine in the USSR in the 1930s was a consequence of the Soviet policy, the collectivization of agriculture, and the “dekulakization” of the peasantry that was carried out during that period.

        • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
          32·
          12 days ago

          Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR) was a different entity comprised of totally different interests than the present Russian Federation (RF). The elements who formed the RF destroyed the RSFSR and dismembered the USSR in the 1990s, plundering them to lay the foundations of the present Russian oligarchy’s wealth and power. Present-day Russia is the sworn enemy of the Soviets who were in charge at the time of the famine, and not a reliable source.