Hólod
(Famine)
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Mor
(Death)
The Holodomor was a famine-genocide that killed millions of people in Ukraine between 1932 & 1933.
Soviet authorities first seized all grain and eventually all food, forcing people to eat anything they could find to stay alive.
Cause
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USSR wanted to industrialize its economy and to crush Ukrainian nationalism.
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Soviets set brutally high grain quotas on Ukrainian villages.
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Then sold the grain to other countries for profit.
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When villagers couldn’t meet the quotas, police violently confiscated all other food.
Effect
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Millions were starved to death in this man-made famine.
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To survive, people resorted to eating hay, bark, roots and worse.
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4-7 million
people died of starvation in Ukraine between 1932 & 1933.
50+Years The Holodomor was covered up and denied.
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One official arose and made a speech about this tragedy - the tragedy of having millions of people dying of hunger. He began to enumerate death figures…
Stalin interrupted him to say:
“If only one man dies of hunger, it is a tragedy. If millions die, that’s only a statistic.”
