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The U.S. had been in the great depression for a few years after Black Friday in 1929, and Adolf Hitler had just become chancellor in Germany which would lead to World War II.

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Due to the efforts and propaganda from the Soviet Union, the world knew nothing of the genocide until the late 1980's when multiple reports and documentaries were released, obviously too late to do anything about the genocide.

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#1 Stalin's paranoia drove him to eliminate all people he thought were threats, including simple kulaks.

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#1 Stalin's paranoia drove him to eliminate all people he thought were threats, including simple kulaks.

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The Holodomor Article explains, "To Stalin, the strong national consciousness of the Ukrainian people and the continuing loss of Soviet influence in Ukraine, were completely unacceptable." Ukraine was no exception to Stalin's greed for power and control, so with the loss of his influence he decided to purge and crush that Ukrainian consciousness.

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#2 Stalin's paranoia drove him to eliminate all people he thought were threats, including simple kulaks.

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#2 Stalin's paranoia drove him to eliminate all people he thought were threats, including simple kulaks.

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The Article also describes, "He believed any future revolts would be led by the 'kulaks'." Although the peasant land owners posed an imaginary threat to Stalin, he still feared them and eliminated them to destroy that fake danger.

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#3 Stalin's paranoia drove him to eliminate all people he thought were threats, including simple kulaks.

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#3 Stalin's paranoia drove him to eliminate all people he thought were threats, including simple kulaks.

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Britannica states, "The famine was a direct assault on the Ukrainian peasantry, which had stubbornly continued to resist collectivization; indirectly." Stalin had an extreme belief in collectivization and his government, so when the Ukrainian people resisted it he understood it as a threat to his position and a reason to kill them.

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This photo shows many peasant kulaks working on a collective, which are farms created by Stalin by seizing private property and merging them into a single farm.

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The main people that Stalin and his authorities targeted were the peasant farmers known as kulaks. These people consistently cultivated enough food for the population, and to export for profit but Stalin took complete advantage over the latter.

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#2 Stalin implemented his genocide by seizing all food from farmers, as well as arresting and executing people for simple crimes.

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#2 Stalin implemented his genocide by seizing all food from farmers, as well as arresting and executing people for simple crimes.

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The article from Gale discloses, "'Deprivation of food was used as a weapon to ethnically cleanse the Ukrainian territories." Stalin ordered his authorities to mercilessly steal all food produced by the peasants, then left them with absolutely no sustenance, no relief, and no way to stock food leaving them to rapidly starve.

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#3 Stalin implemented his genocide by seizing all food from farmers, as well as arresting and executing people for simple crimes.

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#3 Stalin implemented his genocide by seizing all food from farmers, as well as arresting and executing people for simple crimes.

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Red Famine says, "'There is not enough bread, villagers are forced to eat unacceptable ersatz... villagers who are underfed at the collective farms and workers whose rations are insufficient are begging for food.'" Without food, not only did these people die, they suffered extremely painful deaths while eating anything they could and making hopeless efforts to beg which only accelerated the process of death.

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#1 Stalin implemented his genocide by seizing all food from farmers, as well as arresting and executing people for simple crimes.

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#1 Stalin implemented his genocide by seizing all food from farmers, as well as arresting and executing people for simple crimes.

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Britannica clarifies, "At the same time, a law was passed in August 1932 making the theft of socialist property a capital crime, leading to scenes in which peasants faced the firing squad for stealing as little as a sack of wheat from state storehouses." Stalin used these simple thefts as an excuse to accuse these desperate peasants as criminals and give the government a valid reason to execute countless peasants.

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After Stalin took control of the Soviet Union, he quickly established a totalitarian rule and set very harsh policies. These included collectivization, communism, and more. Stalin initiated the Holodomor in 1932 against the Ukraine kulaks and while he made the public believe that he was only taking state property, the real reason was to punish and starve Ukrainians for resisting collectivization and to ethnically cleanse the country. The genocide ended after the harvest of 1933 when the countryside was obliterated and Soviet settlers repopulated the country.

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This newspaper article shows the extreme famine and death in Ukraine. The photos show malnourished corpses which were common during the Holodomor.

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This was a common method of execution for people that the Soviet Union considered criminals for small crimes like stealing a single sack of wheat.

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The leader of the Soviet Union at the time was Josef Stalin. He and his authorities crushed all opposition and even thought of rebellion through fear and famine.