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The Holodomor Famine

 The Holodomor famine of 1932–1933 was one of the most devastating tragedies in Ukrainian history, resulting in the deaths of millions due to starvation. It was a man-made famine orchestrated by the Soviet government under Joseph Stalin, primarily as a means of crushing Ukrainian nationalism and resistance to Soviet policies. The famine was a direct consequence of forced collectivization, grain requisition policies, and political repression, which led to widespread food shortages, suffering, and death. The Holodomor, meaning "death by hunger" in Ukrainian, is now widely recognized as a genocide against the Ukrainian people, as it was deliberately engineered to weaken and suppress the Ukrainian nation. The roots of the Holodomor can be traced back to Stalin's aggressive collectivization policies, which sought to consolidate individual peasant farms into large, state-controlled collective farms. This policy was part of the broader Soviet strategy to industrialize rapidly a...

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