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The Walter Duranty campaign A Man-Made Famine raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region of northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River region in 1932-33. This resulted in the death of between 7 to 10 million people, mainly Ukrainians. This was instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lazar Kaganovich. The main goal of this artificial famine was to break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them into collectivisation. The famine was also used as an effective tool to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occurring under approval of the communist government in Ukraine. Moscow perceived this as a threat to a Russo-Centric Soviet rule and therefore acted to crush this cultural renaissance in a most brutal manner. In 1932, the Soviets increased the grain procurement quota for Ukraine by 44%. They were aware that this extraordinarily high quota would result in a grain shortage, therefore resulting in the inability of the Ukrainian peasant to feed themselves. Soviet law was quite clear in that no grain could be given to feed the peasants until the quota was met. Communist party officials with the aid of military troops and NKVD secret police units were used to move against peasants who may be hiding grain from the Soviet government. Even worse, an internal passport system was implemented to restrict movements of Ukrainian peasants so that they could not travel in search of food. Ukrainian grain was collected and stored in grain elevators that were guarded by military units & NKVD secret police units while Ukrainians were starving in the immediate area. The actions of this Moscow instigated action was a deliberate act of genocide against the Ukrainian peasant. Credits: InfoUkes http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/ Famine in Ukraine, 1932-33: Resources on the WebГолодомор 1932-33 років в Україні: матеріяли на вебіChicago
Committee to Remember the Great Famine Gerus,
Oleh W., speech at the unveiling of a monument to
the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, 1932-1933 in Dauphin,
Manitoba, Canada, on August 4, 2001. Infoukes
(Canada), “The Artificial Famine/Genocide in Ukraine 1932-33” Gateway site. Library of Congress (USA), “Ukrainian Famine,” in the on-line document exhibition “Revelations from the Russian Archives” http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ukra.html The Ukrainian Weekly (New Jersey, USA), “The Great Famine”http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/Great_Famine/index.shtml Links to materials on the Famine in Ukrainian Weekly, especially in 1983, the year of the 50th anniversary of the Famine. Includes two major studies by James E. Mace: “The Man-Made Famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine: What Happened and Why,” and “The Famine: Stalin Imposes a Final Solution” Woropay, Oleksa, The Ninth Circle: In Commemoration of the Victims of the Famine of 1933. Ed. with an Introduction by James Mace. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Ukrainian Studies Fund, 1983. http://www.sabre.org/ukrlib/books/ninth.circle/ninth.circle.tp.html On-line version of the full text and illustrations. Матеріяли українською мовою Materials in Ukrainian День (Київ), 24.11.2001, «Опитування Дня: Голодомори 1921 року, 1932-33 років і 1947 року» http://www.day.kiev.ua/2001/216/economy/ec2.htm Дзеркало тижня (Київ), № 14, квітень 2002, Сидорук, Аркадій, «Пристрасна Правда роберта Конквеста» http://www.zn.kiev.ua/nn/show/389/34439/
Місто Богодухів, «Голодомор 1933» http://bohodukhiv.kyiv.org/history/1933.htm Президент України, Указ Президента України про заходи у зв’язку з 70-ми роковинами голодомору в Україні, 20.3.2002 http://www.ukremb.com/news/2002/020320u.htm http://www.ukrajinci.hu/arhiv/hromada_58_ua/istorija/holod.htm
Яценко, Євгенія, з аввтореферату дисертації «Голодомор 1932-1933 років на Харківщині» http://www.geocities.com/nspilka/library/golodomor33.html
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