Original sentence: In some places, famine was allowed to run its course; and millions of peasants in Ukraine starved to death in a famine, called the Holodomor in Ukrainian.Total civilian losses during the war and German occupation in Ukraine are estimated between five and seven million, including over half a million Jews shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen
Edited sentence: ) must be exterminated according to Stalin's rule.Almost all that went there never returned.Before the genocide could take place, all people in authority and all knowledgeable people (teachers, librarians, mayors, head military officials, etc.Many were killed on sight or sent to the Gulag death camps in Siberia to be tortured in order to give out information about others who had knowledge of the current political situation.Once this was accomplished by Stalin, the genocide/collectivisation could commence.Starvation was allowed to run its course everywhere and millions of Ukrainians starved to death; it was called Holodomor in Ukrainian.This starvation was due to Stalin's plan to induce a genocide on the Ukrainian people.Total civilian losses during the war and German occupation in Ukraine are estimate.d between five and seven million, including over half a million Jews shot and killed by the Einsatzgruppen