http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afVdnbMd6gA
1932-33
While Ukrainians were starving, the USSR was exporting grain grown in Ukraine. NKVD (later became KGB) units were sent into Ukraine to confiscate food and patrol fields to make sure no-one stole the crops that the USSR was growing for export.
Any Ukrainian, including children, caught taking food from the fields was shot on the spot.
http://anahenry.com/2014/02/22/ukraine-history-geopolitics-current-events/
That is why “liberating” was in quotes. They liberated them from the Nazis and immediately annexed them into the Soviet Union. With friends like that who needs enemies.