1930s UKRAINIAN FAMINE

The 80th anniversary of Stalin's forced famine in the Ukraine passed in November and I did not see any press coverage of it.  It was a horrible act of genocide.  And even more  horrible is that the New Times reporter lied about it because of his leftist political bias when he wrote news stories on the situation in the 1930s.

Joseph Stalin’s decision in 1928 to seize privately held agricultural land and transform it into collective farms caused massive hardship for all Soviet peasants. When authorities expropriated peasant grain stocks and farm animals, hunger broke out in much of the USSR. In Ukraine, where close to a million peasants actively rebelled against collectivization, such expropriations were especially severe, leading to widespread starvation that the state both refused to alleviate and purposely aggravated until millions had died and a massive crackdown on Ukrainian political, cultural, and religious elites had been completed. At the height of the Holodomor, 25,000 Ukrainians starved per day; cannibalism was rampant.