Holodomor

The topic that I have chosen to research about is the Holodomor Genocide. The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5 million to 7.5 million Ukrainians. Under the rule of Joseph Stalin, this was done 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. People were dying at the rate of 30,000 per day and at least 4 million of the counted deaths were due to starvation. This does not include deportations, executions, or deaths from ordinary causes. Eventually, Soviet regions are brought in to sweep through all villages and confiscate hidden grain and all food from the farmers' homes. Stalin denies to the world that there is any famine in Ukraine, and continues to export millions of tons of grain, more than enough to have saved every starving man, woman and child.…

feared man. If he felt like his people wanted to rebel against him, he sent them to labor camps. Throughout Stalin’s Forced Famine, Ukrainians were targeted due to Stalin’s anger of his people seeking independence from his rule; thus, this event resulted in the deaths of 7,000,000 Ukrainians. To start off, the person responsible of the deaths of seven million people at the end of 1933, was Joseph Stalin. Stalin was a leader of the Soviet Socialist Republicans. Stalin was a merciless man who…

Education became highly valued as well, because it was seen as the only way to break out of poverty. My grandfather attended the University of Saskatchewan with hardly enough money to survive. The professors there were kind enough to let him sleep in the top part of the chicken barns, and eat some of the eggs. My father also attended the university, and I will as well. The trauma the Holodomor caused to millions of people is horrific, and although signs of intergenerational trauma are evident,…

The term “Holodomor” is used to describe the artificial famine imposed on the Ukrainian population. Ukraine suffered three major famines, the first started in 1921 and the last ended in 1947 (#1). The Holodomor’s history began in 1929 with a huge influx of exiled successful farmers, religious, intellectual and cultural leaders, ultimately anyone that resisted the Soviet regime. This influx led to the famine that killed millions of innocent people (#2). Between 1932 and 1933 the Soviet…

In 1948, the United Nations defined genocide as “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group….” The Ukrainian Famine, which lasted from 1932-1933 was a famine in the Soviet controlled Republic of Ukraine, in which more than 7 million people perished and died from starvation. This famine, also known as the Holodomor, was true to the meaning; people were not being sacrificed for a cause, instead they were dying for no reason…

Norman Naimark argues in Stalin’s Genocides that the dekulakization, the Holodomor, attacks on enemy nationalities, and the purges of 1937-38 purges should all be classified as the “crime of crimes”: genocide. Currently the four events are simply viewed as massacres or mass killings of a gargantuan scale. He goes further to assert that it was Stalin alone who facilitated and enabled these genocides to occur. By reclassifying them as genocide, Naimark hopes that Stalin’s crimes will finally get…

Special passports were imposed in December of 1932, and any person who opposed to the Holodomor was known as a “kulak.” Independent farmers were known as kulaks if they resisted collectivization. Furthermore, kulaks didn’t want collectivization of their farms because it would mean having to share their prosperity. Symbolization wasn’t big in the Holodomor. Ukrainian peasants were easily identified, because of where they lived. In the end, symbolization wasn’t needed for the USSR genocide.…

What is the background to the Holodomor Genocide? people in ukraine were dying by the day because stalin and his followers tried to teach the farmers “a lesson they won't forget” He made them give up their land and livestock so now ukraine was under soviet union and everyone was starving to death. Where did it happen? “deaths from starvation emerged from two urban areas of the city of uman, reported in January 1933 by Vinntaysta By mid-January 1933, there were reports about mass "difficulties"…

In a day and age when we hear “Russia” and “fake news” in every other news cast, it is shocking that one of the worst cases of propaganda and fake news has yet to be totally publically accepted. Known as “Holodomor” the Ukrainian genocide continues to be one of Russian dirtiest, well kept secret. Starting in the late 20’s the with mass arrests and deportations, it culminated with a man-made famine from 1932-1933, it is believed that Stalin was able to kill between 7 to 14 million Ukrainian…

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…