Holodomor Famine
A Holodomor Famine is a famine in Soviet Ukraine.
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- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor Retrieved:2023-8-15.
- … was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, whether the Holodomor constitutes a genocide remains in dispute. Some historians conclude that the famine was planned and exacerbated by Joseph Stalin in order to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Others suggest that the famine was primarily the consequence of rapid Soviet industrialisation and collectivization of agriculture.
Ukraine was one of the largest grain-producing states in the USSR and was subject to unreasonably higher grain quotas, when compared to the rest of the USSR. This caused Ukraine to be hit particularly hard by the famine. Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials vary greatly. A joint statement to the United Nations signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7–10 million died.However, current scholarship estimates a range significantly lower, with 3.5 to 5 million victims. Of this number, it is estimated a quarter of the death toll were children, and another 600,000 indirect deaths occurred through lost births. The famine's widespread impact on Ukraine persists to this day.
Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the European Parliament, Ukraine, and 25 other countries, as a genocide against the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government.
- … was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.