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    The document summarizes the Ukrainian Genocide that occurred from 1917 to 1933. It describes how Ukraine suffered from constant conflict after declaring independence in 1917. In the 1920s the USSR reclaimed Ukraine and a drought caused a famine in 1921. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin implemented more oppressive Russian policies. In the late 1920s, Stalin's policy of collectivization and dekulakization led to the deaths of over 1.5 million Ukrainians. From 1932 to 1933, the Holodomor famine caused widespread death by starvation as Stalin increased quotas and blocked food aid. It is estimated that millions of Ukrainians died in the famine, though the USSR denied it was a genocide at the time and many Western countries were initially reluctant to acknowledge it

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    The document summarizes the Ukrainian Genocide that occurred from 1917 to 1933. It describes how Ukraine suffered from constant conflict after declaring independence in 1917. In the 1920s the USSR reclaimed Ukraine and a drought caused a famine in 1921. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin implemented more oppressive Russian policies. In the late 1920s, Stalin's policy of collectivization and dekulakization led to the deaths of over 1.5 million Ukrainians. From 1932 to 1933, the Holodomor famine caused widespread death by starvation as Stalin increased quotas and blocked food aid. It is estimated that millions of Ukrainians died in the famine, though the USSR denied it was a genocide at the time and many Western countries were initially reluctant to acknowledge it

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    The document summarizes the Ukrainian Genocide that occurred from 1917 to 1933. It describes how Ukraine suffered from constant conflict after declaring independence in 1917. In the 1920s the USSR reclaimed Ukraine and a drought caused a famine in 1921. After Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin implemented more oppressive Russian policies. In the late 1920s, Stalin's policy of collectivization and dekulakization led to the deaths of over 1.5 million Ukrainians. From 1932 to 1933, the Holodomor famine caused widespread death by starvation as Stalin increased quotas and blocked food aid. It is estimated that millions of Ukrainians died in the famine, though the USSR denied it was a genocide at the time and many Western countries were initially reluctant to acknowledge it

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    The Ukrainian Genocide

    Mara Caldwell
    Ukrainian Peoples Republic

    1917 - 1921, Constant conflict for


    Ukraine

    - Red Army
    - White Army
    - Invaders (Germans and Poles)
    USSR Reclaims Ukraine and the First Starvation
    1921, Soviet Victory

    1922, Drought
    Lenins Death and Stalins Change in Policy
    1924, Lenins Death

    National Revival
    Movement

    Stalin implements
    Russian policy and
    methods (4 aims)
    BEGINNING OF GENOCIDE (ROOT)
    Introduction of Collectivization
    1928, collectivization introduced

    Aimed to feed people in industrial cities and


    generate revenue for industrialization
    Ukraines Backbone (Kulaks)

    Agricultural economy (80% of pop.)

    Kulaks = owned more than 24 acres or


    employed farm workers

    Threat to Communist ideology


    Dekulakization
    1929, Stalin implements policies
    of class-warfare

    Kulaks = enemies of the people

    Laws forbid people from helping

    1930, 1.5m fall to policy

    10m taken and deported to


    Siberia
    Resistance

    Cheka gets sent in and systematically kill


    HOLODOMOR (Ukrainian Famine)
    Increase in Quotas
    Aug 1932 - Jan 1933, Stalin increases quotas for foodstuffs to USSR

    Dumped into foreign markets

    Summer 1932, laws for execution of theft


    Blockades and the Purge of the Communist Party

    Blockades and closed borders

    Communists ask for aid and reduction of quotes, 100,000 soldiers sent in
    Starvation and Torment
    Mothers throw children on trains

    Dead bodies picked up off streets

    Cannibalism

    Animals were fed

    Food stored in open


    The Numbers
    1933, End of Holodomor
    Denial (USSR)
    Denial (western)
    Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant
    propaganda. There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but
    there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
    (Pulitzer-prize winner Walter Duranty, NY Times)
    The Genocide Question
    Only 18 countries have acknowledged the events in Ukraine as a Genocide

    Soviet regime's re-direction


    Ethnic Genocide of already drought-reduced
    grain supplies to attain
    economic and political goals
    Was the Holodomor a Genocide?
    If so how can you prove it?

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