Holodomor
The Holodomor, also known as the Great Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 - 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor is a genocide of the Ukrainian nation that was committed by the leadership of the Soviet Union in order to finally eliminate Ukrainian resistance to the regime and attempts to build an independent Ukrainian State.
Literature on Holodomor topic:
Raphael Lemkin, Soviet Genocide in Ukraine, The article in 33 languages
Anne Applebaum, Red Famine, Stalin's war on Ukraine
Robert Conquest, The Harvest of Sorrow
Anne Applebaum, Röd Hungersnöd, Stalins krig mot Ukraina
- Mendel Osherowitch, How People Live in Soviet Russia: Impressions from a Journey
Movie on Holodomor topic:
A Welsh journalist breaks the news in the western media of the famine in Ukraine in the early 1930s. An ambitious young journalist, Gareth Jones, travels to Moscow in 1933 to uncover the truth behind Stalin's genocide againt Ukrainian people. Based on a true story that would later inspire George Orwell's seminal book Animal Farm.
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