75th anniversary of the start of the famine that killed 10 million in the Ukrainian Genocide/Famine/

Kyiv Post ^

[toshut]

The anniversary of Holodomor - or Death by Hunger as it is known here - where individuals light candles to remember family and frieds who died...10 million lives were lost. The famine was orchestrated by dictator Josef Stalin to force peasants to give up their land and join collective farms and Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, suffered the most.

[tet68]

When the Komsomol killed the nightingales to keep
the Ukranians from knowing spring had come bump.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I think it was a bit more than 10 million who were murder by starvation by the hand of Stalin.

[Paleo Conservative]

There is no famine or actual starvation nor is there likely to be.

Walter Duranty

[USNBandit]

Been a while since this topic has come up. I recommend The Black Book of Communism for details of this famine.

It is an academic book, very dry, but very full of facts. One of the main discussions of the book dealt with whether the failed agrarian reform pogroms were purposeful attempts to subjugate the masses.

[USNBandit]

Hard to plant when your grain quota includes seizing your seed for that crop.

[toshut]

ah Mr Duranty, you have come to collect your rubles for the wonderfully inventive articles you wrote as propaganda for the A$$ kissing left media in honor of uncle Joe...

[Cicero]

Pinch Sulzberger and the New York Times still refuse to repudiate Walter Duranty and his Pulitzer Prize.

[Katya]

I believe they light something like 25,000 candles to commemorate the 25,000 who died daily.
It’s crazy to me how few people have heard of the Holodomor.

[BallyBill]

Who ya gonna believe, The Kyev Post or The New York Times? Ah, never mind.

[toshut]

Yes Katya,

25,000 candles representing the number that died each day....due to Stalin and his system.

And today we have Russia “CELEBRATING” Stalin's anniversary. Totally insane

[RayChuang88]

What I find interesting is that every major famine of the 20th Century was caused by war or deliberate government policy. What happened in the Ukraine may have resulted in 14 MILLION dead from either deliberate starvation or exile in the gulag system in Siberia. This is bigger than what the Nazi concentration camps did between 1933 and 1945.

[piytar]

Lots of Jew-bashing in the comments. Putrid.

[piytar]

Hmm, kind of like obama’s failed economic, national defense, and foreign relation policies being intentional, for the purpose of wrecking America?

[piytar]

Oops, to be clear, I’m referring to the comments at the linked article, not here.

[AmericanArchConservative]

o pripominat’

A.A.C.

[votemout]

IIRC the top few hundred leaders, intellectuals and artists were killed outright.

[votemout]

http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/harvest_of_despair/

Harvest of Despair

[Para-Ord.45]

bm

[Fred Nerks]