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The Artificial Famine/Genocide
(Holodomor) in Ukraine
1932-33

Introduction

A Man-Made Famine raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region of northern Caucasus (i.e. Kuban), 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 collectivization. The famine was also used as an effective tool to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occuring 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. The famine/genocide also had the added "benefit" to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians from vast territories.

In 1932, the Soviets increased the grain procurement quota for Ukraine by 44%. They were aware that this extraordinarly 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, OGPU, 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.

In recent years President Viktor Yushchenko had ordered the release of old KGB records on the Famine. With this information it has become very apparent that this Famine was a deliberate act of Genocide, a method to ethnically cleanse Ukrainians from the territories of Ukraine and parts of Russia. At first only several thousand documents were released. Recently another batch of 25,000 documents is being declassified. As more documents are released this event in Ukrainian history has taken on a very ominous tone.

On November 28th 2006, the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament of Ukraine) had passed a Law defining the Holodomor as a deliberate Act of Genocide.

These series of pages are intended to educate the general populace about this little known event in Ukrainian history. InfoUkes hopes to add to this series of pages over time.

The InfoUkes Inc. Staff
Updated November 28th 2006

Table of Contents

	Black Famine in Ukraine 1932-33: A Struggle for Existence Andrew Gregorovich, Forum: A Ukrainian Review No. 24, 1974
	Famine Film: "Harvest of Despair" Leonard Klady, Forum: A Ukrainian Review No. 61, Spring 1985
	The Last Stand of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide Deniers Dr. Roman Serbyn
	Denied, Defiled, Or Ignored The Ukrainian Famine Of 1932-33 Fifty Years Later Orysia Tracz
	Famine-Genocide Deniers (Revisionists)
	Bibliography on the Ukrainian Famine/Genocide (Holodomor)
	The Ukrainian Weekly on the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine
	Other Ukrainian Famine-Genocide (Holodomor) Links

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