Thursday, February 5, 2009

The Soviet famine of 1932-33

What is the actual cause of the famine in the Soviet Union during 1932-33? Many people argue that it was a policy designed by Stalin for the economic industrialization of Russia. Most major grain producing agricultural areas of the Soviet Union were affected when the peasantry was seized and the grain exported to the west. By doing so 6 to 8 million deaths accrued, bring many people to call it a genocide. Some Russian leaders of today which includes Viktor Yuschenko, argue that it was designed as an attack on Ukraine, therefore it cannot be classified a genocide. Yuschenkos popularity has been in constant decline form 52% in 2004 to below 10% today, leading him to unite the Ukrainian nation against Russia in order to politicize the issue of golodomor.
No matter how the final outcome is determined holodomor or, "mass hunger," caused the suffering of millions of people and the truth should finally be known, so such a thing may never be repeated.
Governments come and governments go and the people in the middle either prosper or suffer by their decisions. The people should never become the victims of governments that use these tactics to push through their own agendas. Please take the time to log on to this website and read for yourself, then decide. We the people of the world should never suffer by the hands of the few.

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