Holodomor
THE HOLODOMOR (UKRAINE) Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933. (Wikipedia) Passers-by and the corpse of a starved man on a street in Kharkiv, 1932 (Wikipedia) Children struggle to dig through the frozen earth for potatoes, Udachny, Ukraine. 1933 (Wikimedia commons) The Holodomor, also known as the Terror-Famine, Famine-Genocide in Ukraine, or the Ukranian Genocide of 1932–33, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor, a compound of the Ukranian words “holod” (hunger) and “mor”(plague), millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukranians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in Ukraine’s history. Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine and 15 other countries as a genocide of the Ukranian people carr...
