A Brief History Of The WORST Man-Made Famines: Holodomor

Holodomor can be literally translated to “death by hunger”. It’s a horrifying fate that between 7 and 10 million people suffered in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 thanks to the Soviet Union’s harsh grain quotas and Joseph Stalin’s underlying desire to totally subdue the Ukrainian population.

In recent years, with further evaluation of Joseph Stalin’s methods in Ukraine that led to this mass famine, historians have been forced to reconsider and reassess what happened in 1932-1933, with many now renaming the Holodomor as nothing shorter than one of the worst man-made famines.
Before joining the Soviet Union in 1922, Ukraine was its own, independent, thriving nation. This was in no small part due to their flourishing agriculture, with lands full of fertile soil, ripe for farming. The crops produced in Ukraine became so well known that after joining, it became known as the Soviet Union’s breadbasket.
Joseph Stalin, head of the new Soviet Union, wanted to ensure he had Ukraine under his complete control. And so, he introduced a Five-Year Plan in 1928, part of which included what was called the ‘Collectivization of Agriculture’ that was meant to meet the needs of the rapidly expanding urban population.
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[myronsozanskyj]

It was a human rights lawyer by the name of Rafael Lemkin who in 1944 defined the term genocide. He described the genocide of Ukrainians in four stages - death by starvation of the Ukrainian peasantry, the extermination of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, the destruction of the independent Ukrainian orthodox church its clergy and parishes and the mass deportation of Ukrainians to extreme and remote areas of the soviet union. By the way Ukraine didn't "join" the soviet union it was occupied by Lenin's troops in 1922.

[dollarnne]

My grandmother lost half of her siblings during this time

[timotylee]

In 1947 there was also a severe famine in region around Odessa city in Ukraine.
It was caused by the fact that after the war there was no food.
My grandmother almost died and another relative also affected by significant starving. My grandmother said that she saw a women who ate her child and became crazy.
But next to this region there was the Bessarabia region which wasn't greatly damaged by the war and it had enough amount of grain.
But even this region was suffered from famine as communists took all the food from people and took out it by trains.
And some part of grain was drowned in a swamp as there was no free space in the train.

[cymrusek]

"The good people died first."

[LeonCouch]

It is good you covered this huge tragedy that seems to not be much in the consciousness of Westerners. And, it shows just a line of horrendous activities by nearly any modern government supposedly based on Marxist principles.

[r-urbex]

And people still think communism is a good thing

[monto]

Communism as it was practiced in Russia and China has a hell of a body count through starvation. I'm curious to know totals. Anyone?

[amanjsalehi]

😪How painful it is, and it is even more painful that the severity of oppression has not decreased even today, but only the method of its actions has changed😪

[marypylyp]

Thank you for telling the truth, sharing the history as it was

[funki]

Almost every farmer in Ukraine was considered a kulak because everyone had enough soil to not only sustain himself but also sell something to the cities. But the bolsheviks the coloniseres that they were had to rob all the resources. It's like saying that Congolesians didn't die because the Belgian mercenaries killed them but because of some cauchuc blight...

[jackieo]

I think the worst is yet to come, caused by WEF.

[ronaldgansler]

Ahhh Russia, such a friendly country. “Not”

[randomdog]

Same thing that is currently going on in Yemen

[anakres]

My great grandmother was the only kid that survived, her 8 siblings died frkm diseases caused by hunger. She told me the horror stories of those times, and they continue to this day, Stalin now Putin, diderent names same kind of evil.

[annaelmas]

Thank you for telling this story. Nowadays Putin tries to continue Stalin’s politics towards Ukraine. Russia must be stopped this time for sure!

[afterhourscinema]

And to this day, Russia is still fucking with Ukraine. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[moniranik]

This is not the biggest man made famine. The biggest man made famine is the great bengal famine of 1943 in Indian sub continent. It was artificially created by Winston Churchill.

[orziqulovburhoniddin]

It doesn't only happened in Ukraine. It also happened in Turkestan too. Almost 1 million people died in Fergana valley and more than 200 thousand people in Samarkand region. And more and more people in other regions This was so horrific all the parts of the USSR shaked 😢😢😢

[Xanrax]

We will show these kulaks a thing or two. How dare they think they can just farm and not throw away the farm land that they farmed for miliiena. How evil is Russia to Ukraine. Support the Ukrainian people support their right to determine their own fate. God bless Ukraine.

[Hale-Bopp]

Why are other country leaders so freakin cruel and evil back then🥺