89 years ago, in late spring 1933, it was the peak of Holodomor, the man-made famine that convulsed Ukraine from 1932 to 1933
89 years ago, in late spring 1933, it was the peak of Holodomor, the man-made famine that convulsed Ukraine from 1932 to 1933
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Holodomor, man-made famine that convulsed the Soviet republic of Ukraine from 1932 to 1933, peaking in the late spring of 1933. It was part of a broader Soviet famine (1931–34) that also caused mass starvation in the grain-growing regions of Soviet Russia and Kazakhstan. The Ukrainian famine, however, was made deadlier by a series of political decrees and decisions that were aimed mostly or only at Ukraine. In acknowledgement of its scale, the famine of 1932–33 is often called the Holodomor, a term derived from the Ukrainian words for hunger (*holod*) and extermination (*mor*). [[Britannica](https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor)]
It wasn’t just 1932-33. The famine Stalin forced lasted for a decade. It just happens the winter of 1932-1933 was the worst part of Holodomor where millions starved to death in a single winter season.
Not just in Ukraine, but in Russia and Kazakhstan
And people wonder why Ukrainians are fighting like hell.