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A statue made to commemerate the victims of the Holodomor

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The Holodomor was the purposful starvation of Ukrainian peasentry and killing of intellectuals and priests by the Soviet government under the rule of Joseph Stalin. Estimates place the death toll from anywhere around 3.5m to 10m across Ukraine and Ukrainian communities in the Caucuses and Southern Russia as well as Kazakhstan, where around 1m people died a third of Kazakhstans population at the time. The Holodomor took place in 1932 and 1933. The name of the Holodomor is somewhat disputed many people especially in the diaspera community in Canada and the US, for example my grandfathers family in Canada is Ukrainian by ethnicity and they call it the Red terror or the Red Famine while the Holodomor means something close to "death by starvation" in Ukrainian.

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Mykola Khvyolvy, a Ukrainian poet killed during the Soviet Terror

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Extermination of intellectuals and religious figures 

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Extermination of intellectuals and religious figures 

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Before the implimentation of collective farming Soviet authorities rounded up Ukrainian intellectuals and religous figures and exectuted them and destroyed religous sites.

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Putin illegally annexing parts of Ukraine 

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During the Holodomor the Soviet government distrubuted propaganda labeling Ukrainian farmers "Kulaks" a Russian term for a rich farmer, or a farmer who keeps their product from the general population of the country. This propoganda spread all across the Soviet Union and other than the areas directly affected by the Holodomor, worked very well turning people against the Ukrainians and making them the villain or the "Kulaks". This is similair to what Putin is currently doing labeling Ukranians as "Nazis" while he himself idolizes one of the creators of facism, Ivan Ilyn and even quoted him in his speech illegally annexing the Ukrainian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaphorizia.

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Group of farmers working at a collective farm in the Soviet Union

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Implementation of collective farming practices 

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Implementation of collective farming practices 

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The genocide began with the implimentation of collective farming which was used as a way to make money from the labour of the peasent population by the government, they would take most of the farmers product and sell that too western buyers and other republics within the Soviet Union, mostly Russia and Belarus, Stalin's favorites.

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Boats and boating--Equipment and supplies

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Walter Duranty - a journalist who snuck into Ukraine to cover the genocide against the Soviet Unions wishes

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Closing of the border and censoring of journalists 

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Closing of the border and censoring of journalists 

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Once Ukrainians started to leave in order to find food and a better life, many fleeing to Canada, the US and other Soviet republics the government shut the borders and cut information flow banning journalists from entering Ukraine or using the word starvation or famine, prefering for them to use phrases like food shortage.

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A picture captured by Walter Duranty during his time reporting in Ukriane

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In the winter of 1932 and 1933 without grain Ukrainian civilians starved with many trying to leave which led to the shutting of the Ukrainian borders and crackdown on freedom of speech within the country. The scenes of the Holodomor were desperate and dier, bodies layed in the streets and children were too weak to move.

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In the wake of the Holodomor the Soviet Union were succesful in their goal of crushing any potential of a Ukrainian uprising or revolution and kept the republic within the Union until its collapse

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The Soviet government never acknowledged the Holodomor as a genocide and denied its happening. The current Russian government does not classify the Holodomor as a genocide. Today only 20 countries recognize the Holodomor as a genocide, most of them being strong Ukrainian allies like Estonia or Poland, South American countries or a select number of western nations like the US and Canada