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“From 1931 to 1934 we had great harvests. The weather conditions were great. However, all the grain was taken from us. People searched the fields for mice burrows hoping to find measly amounts of grain stored by mice…”

(as remembered by Mykola Karlosh)

“I’m asking for your permission to advance me any amount of grain. I’m completely sick. I don’t have any food. I’ve started to swell up and I can hardly move my feet. Please don’t refuse me or it will be too late.”

(From a petition to the authorities by P. Lube)

This was the first instance of a peacetime genocide in history. It took the extraordinary form of an artificial famine deliberately created by the ruling powers. This savage combination of words for the designation of a crime — “an artificial, deliberately planned famine” — is still incredible to many people throughout the world, but indicates the uniqueness of the tragedy of 1933, which is unparalleled, for a time of peace, in the number of victims it claimed.

  • Wasyl Hryshko, survivor of the Holodomor. Hryshko, Wasyl. The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933. Toronto: Bahriany Foundation, Suzhero, Dobrus, 1983, 107
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[-] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 45 points 1 day ago

'The Holodomor' is a Neonazi propaganda buzzword invented in the 80s to equivocate between the USSR and the Third Reich, specifically chosen to imply similarity to the Holocaust which in turn is a form of Holocaust minimization. The origin of the 'intentional famine' myth was literally Joseph fucking Goebbels, and was spread by the media empire of avowed US fascist media tyrant William Randolph Hearst.

Here's what a die-hard Ukrainian nationalist had to say about the famine of 1932:

The USSR did everything it could to alleviate the famine - which stretched beyond Ukraine both further into the USSR and out beyond its borders, shattering the notion it could possibly have been targeted - and once it was brought under control, no famine ever affected the USSR again in peacetime.

[-] Egriaga@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago

Seems like that nationalist conflicts with eyewitness accounts

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago

You understand they are an eyewitness too right?

[-] Egriaga@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago

Yes but it's three against one

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

☝️🤓 there are three total sources on this subject

[-] Egriaga@lemmy.ml -5 points 1 day ago

There's more I can show you if you want

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 day ago

You can just copy paste all of Harvest of Sorrow if you want but it isn't going to change my perspective on these events.

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 29 points 1 day ago
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