What Was Holodomor A Genocide

Genocide: noun: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Holodomor was a man-made mass genocide that affected millions of people in Ukraine between the years of 1932 and 1933. It all started when Joseph Stalin tried to create a new policy, the collectivization policy. The end goal of this new policy was to increase the productivity of farmers by removing them from small farms and relocating them to much larger farms and using mass agricultural policies. The government began seizing privately owned farms and livestock, which had a horrendous effect because a majority of Ukraine was traditional village farmers. Eventually, farmers started to resist giving their land up, this meant that the government had to forcibly remove them from their houses to move them to Siberia. …show more content…
Quotas, produced by Stalin, for the amount of food that was needed to be produced were impossible to meet which caused a widespread malnutrition problem. To make matters worse, in 1932, Stalin made it illegal to steal food from fields where a person may have worked, and they built blockades around villages in Ukraine.
One of the biggest events leading up to the Holodomor was Joseph Stalin came into power in 1928. His ruling is mainly characterized by his ruthless rejection of anyone or anything that he thought could be a threat towards the Soviet Union. He thought the independent minded, Ukranian village farmers could somehow be a threat to the Soviet union because they were “too Ukrainian”. He completely shut down the Ukrainian Autocephalous