Essay On Stalin Man Made Genocide

Holodomor: Stalin’s Man - Made Famine Holodomor is a man - made famine that took place between 1932 and 1933. The famine occurred in the Ukraine after the original leader Vladimir Lenin died and Joseph Stalin took control. When Stalin took control, he started new farming policies in which private farmland was ordered to give a large portion of their crops to the government. This made private farmers angry which started a revolt. In response to these revolts, Stalin ordered all farmland and livestock to be seized and no profit given to the farmers who owned the land. This was the start of the year long famine. Even though the famine is registered as a genocide and the events killed more people than Jewish people killed during the Holocaust, it was a barely noticed tragedy. The two parties involved in the Holodomor are the Soviets and the Ukrainians. The Soviets were the government and the army that starved the citizens while the Ukrainians were the citizens that fought to survive the terrible famine. The Soviets clearly had the upper hand in the situation due to the large military influence and government control because of Stalin. There was no separation of the people who lived in the Ukraine; instead, all of the Ukraine was starved and killed. This was a no tolerance policy promoted by Stalin.
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The way the people were killed was starvation and prisoners were executed with guns. When the public first heard about it, they did not believe that the famine really happened, so the genocide did not become well known until the 1980’s, when the report of the US Commission on the Ukraine Famine was published (Facts and History). In the end, there was a death toll of over seven million Ukrainian citizens, political leaders, and journalists. This genocide had near the same death toll as Jewish people in the Holocaust, and still many people ignored