The Great Famine: The Ukrainian Genocide

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The Great Famine The Soviet Union thinks tense? of ways to take over the Ukraine to implement them in their everyday lives. The famine was also called Holodomor, which means a deliberately implemented starvation. The Ukrainian farmers were given chances to join collectivization yet, they instinctively decided to remain independent. People were evacuated and sent to different places such as Cuba, with death in their future. People were sent to concentration camps where ultimately, death was the best chance you informal had. This is how the Ukrainian Genocide came about. * 1. establish Stalin, 2. Although many people were given the option to join at their will, they were ultimately forced to by Stalin. Thesis;

Paragraph: Introduce/Discuss BEFORE the genocide/how it was implemented
As the genocide dragged on and starvation was becoming the dominant cause of death, the death rate rose to thirty thousand per day. Peasant and middle class individuals were the primary people to die due to starvation, tThe wealthy on the other hand, of course, had money to buy food, so that was never an issue for them. Although some had money to buy the food, the perpetrators did not care. They were helpless and had no way to get it confusing clarify. *Explain what the Collective Farm Policy is
Even though the famine in the Ukraine was not publicized, news
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He is He’s often compared to Hitler, who as many know killed millions of Jews and other culturistic people. The resemblance of their ability to kill innocent people was so alike that in 1939 Trotsky called Stalin "Hitler's quartermaster.” These two were heros in some eyes, which is scary to think citizens idolized these monsters. Although they both had one goal, ultimate power, what they did may surprise you and did surprise the whole world when it was announced. ("Socialism Today - Debating the Hitler-Stalin pact",

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