::::::This goes both ways. Those who say it was a Soviet wide famine of equal scale say "8m died" while including all the ukrainian deaths but not mentioning them by name. This is just like Soviet historiography when concerning the Holocaust, which teaches a universal view and that the Holocaust came from 'the fascists' and affected all of the USSR; 20m+ died during the "Holocaust" (didnt use this word until the 1990s but you get the point) and that there was no genocide or singling out of any ethnic minority [if you want a source for what I'm saying, check out Stefan Rohdewald "Post soviet rememberance of the holocaust and national memories of the second world war..."''''''