How Stalin starved Ukraine



It was a genocide that Russia continues to cover up to this day

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In Ukraine, it’s become known as “the Holodomor,” meaning “death by starvation.” It was a genocide carried out by a dictator who wanted to keep Ukraine under his control and who would do anything to keep it covered up for decades.

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders under Joseph Stalin engineered a famine that killed millions as they sought to consolidate agricultural power. In Ukraine, they used additional force as they sought to clamp down on a burgeoning Ukrainian national identity. There, at least 4 million died. As hunger spread among residents, Stalin spearheaded a disinformation campaign to hide the truth from other Soviet citizens and the world. So many Ukrainians died that officials had to send people to resettle the area, setting off demographic shifts that last to this day.

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Check out the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium for more information and resources: https://holodomor.ca/

We used the Harvard Great Famine Project’s maps and data for our video: https://gis.huri.harvard.edu/great-famine-project

The English translation of Ukrainian historian Stanislav Kulchytsky’s “The Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine: An Anatomy of the Holodomor” was crucial for context for this piece. https://holodomor.ca/the-famine-of-1932-1933-in-ukraine-an-anatomy-of-the-holodomor-by-stanislav-kulchytsky/

Anne Applebaum’s book, “Red Famine,” was a great resource for understanding this history: https://bookshop.org/books/red-famine-stalin-s-war-on-ukraine/9780804170888?gclid=CjwKCAjwiuuRBhBvEiwAFXKaNAF3Fn5BUJ_pybMM0QSagzVo2pEsLn3Uo4uE2UhL7nHHjTwXCleWlxoCNHAQAvD_BwE

We used photos from Alexander Wienerberger, which are maintained by his great-granddaughter Samara Pearce: https://samarajadea3bb.myportfolio.com/

We also used photos from James Abbe. More info on the photographer can be found here: https://www.jamesabbe.com/

“Ukraine: Histories of Dispossession and Resilience” by Olga Biochak: https://www.megconley.com/hidden-bread-and-hidden-histories/

Chapters
Introduction: 00:00
Before the Famine: 1:24
The Famine: 5:20
The Cover-Up: 10:52
Present Day: 13:27

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45 thoughts on “How Stalin starved Ukraine”

  1. HISTORY IS REPEATING ITSELF !!! Only this time they're doing it worldwide and the USA government is part of it. !!! This video needs to be shown to all DEMONcrats and liberals ! Socialism / Marxism / Communism is all the same thing ! It doesn't work and it's all about wealth and power ! Wake up ! This same exact thing ( attack of food production, lies and disinformation ) is happening in America and the government is coming for us ALL unless we stop it ! Don't fall for the lies. !!!

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  2. The collectivisation was done everywhere in USSR. It did not happen over night. It continued all thru 30s. The famine was everywhere in the USSR. It was caused by wheat desease, that's why it hit mostly at the wheat producing south. The so called kulaks were hit everywhere in USSR.
    The whole thing was not targeted at Ukraine only. This is just todays politics. It was in whole USSR and all peoples in USSR suffered from it. Even in Poland and Romania people suffered from that famine.

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  3. STALIN WAS RIGHT TO REACT SO. The rich farmers kulak, wanted to sell at high prices and make profit and delay the industrialisation program. All others Russian farmers who worked at the collective agriculture kolhoz, had no starving problem. They worked at their posts and ate also there at a work break. Those who wanted profit at the expenses of the Revolution, starved, they chose it themselves. Stalin was right to go ahead so decisively, he left an empire behind him. IMMORTAL !!

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  4. Bolshevik USSR is despised Putin’s Russia and rightly so. If this video is the most you’ve learned about the Holomodor and you see Stalin and Putin as two of the same you are very easily led.

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  5. you forgot to mention dovid braunsteim a.k.a. "leon trotsky" when mentioning the holodomor. trotsky was known as the butcher of the ukraine. information about that is censored by the perpetrators.

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  6. The vast majority of academic consensus was that the famine did not constitute a genocide. These would include the work of R.W. Davies and Stephenwheatcroft in their book The Years of Hunger, Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933 where they point out a number of aspects of the famine which proved that the famine was the result of unintentional policy decisions. This is made evident in the fact that they cite 35 different instances of which the Soviet government provided secret-grain relief to the Ukraine. They also noted the slow decline of agricultural production through 1928-1932 as occurring due to a wider drought which was affecting the Asian Steppe, with Kazakhstan being the worst hit in terms of population loss (though no one calls the Kazak famine a genocide).

    The bolstering of the idea of the famine as genocide has come from the Ukrainian government forcing the narrative on various academics within its realm following the illegal dissolution of the USSR.

    (This is, in no way, an affirmation of the modern activities of the Imperialist Russian state, but rather a direct response to calling the Ukrainian famine of 1931-1933 a genocide).

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  7. I would like ask anyone who is good at history or got knowledge please 🙏
    1 why West didn't want interfere with USSR
    2 who actually was West? Can someone please 🙏 help me understand? I am not trying to be rude or disrespectful.
    Thank you.

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  8. I am currently reading a book by Anne Applebaum titled 'Red Famine – Stalin's War on Ukraine'. Much more depth on this history. Thank you for this documentary which gave me visual images of thee events. I fear history will repeat itself in the near future around the world in our time.

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  9. Please try and source photos and videos from Kazakhstan about their famine. There are many documentaries now on YouTube about the Ukraine "Holodomor" but very little about the horrors Kazkhs went through under Stalin.

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