Holodomor And Stalin Essay

The Holodomor-Stalin’s Holocaust The Holodomor was a vast famine that took place in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933, that millions of Ukrainians died of starvation. This was the deliberate mass starvation of an entire country that was carried out under the orders of one of the most brutal leaders in all of history, Josef Stalin. The Holodomor means “murder by hunger” that is what the Ukrainians called it by, and it would leave about ten million people dead. About seven million of these people actually died from starvation. And many more were executed on the spot or they were shipped off to Artic work camps, where they eventually would die from the brutal effects of exposure, overwork and malnutrition.
What was the Holodomor (Classification)
In the Holodomor there were only two groups that were involved, the Russians(The ones starving Ukraine) and Ukraine(The ones being starved). The Russians were deliberately starving Ukraine for no reason at all. They cut off Ukraine’s food supply and let the whole country starve. And if the people weren’t there starving
About three million of these peasants, mostly children died because of the harsh conditions in the Arctic. The peasants that were allowed to stay at their homes in Ukraine, were forced into the collective farms. Everything that these farms produced belonged to Russia. Only after the Russians quotas were met, the peasants could be given a portion to eat. Even after all the work that the Ukrainians had done, they were paid little to nothing and sometimes nothing at all. This was just the initial stages of Stalin’s war against the Ukrainians or “kulaks” as Stalin called them. But the quota he set for them to produce was six almost seven million tons of grain. This was an impossible quota to meet, especially since collective farms were always less productive than private