Holodomor

The **Holodomor** was a man-made famine that happened in Ukraine in 1932 and in 1933. It is also known as the **Terror-Famine** or **Great Famine**. Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union back then. Around 7,000,000 people died under the policies of Joseph Stalin.

## History
Joseph Stalin was the leader and dictator of the Soviet Union, which was a communist country. He made farmers in the Soviet Union change the way they farmed; then he tried to make the farmers work harder for the government-owned farms, for less money. Many people in Ukraine did not want to go along with this. 

When Ukraine had a famine, Stalin refused to help the people there. Instead, the government took food away from people. It became illegal (against the law) to pick up food from the ground of fields. The government also tried to stop people from moving around the country to look for food.

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## Legacy
Scholars and politicians using *Holodomor'' say the famine was a genocide because it was man-made. They argue that the Soviet policies were an attack on the rise of Ukrainian nationalism and therefore is a genocide.

## Denial
### Soviet Union
The Soviet Union's regime is said to have denied the Holodomor throughout its existence. It is also said to have never commemorated the Holocaust.

### Communist Party USA
News of the Holodomor reached the US in 1933. The Yiddish *Jewish Daily Forward* was one of the media that reported the Holodomor. Communist Party USA (CPUSA) of "spreading Nazi-inspired lies", 

Oksana Piaseckyj, a Ukrainian-American activist who fled to the United States as a child in 1950, referred to Walter Duranty as "the personification of evil in journalism." This case has become the biggest scandal in the history of the New York Times.

### Responses
#### Ukraine
Ukraine passed the  in 2006 to ban Holodomor denial, recognizing it as an insult to the memory of victims and humiliation of the dignity of Ukrainians.

#### Germany
In November 2022, Germany recognized the Holodomor as a genocide, while changing a law to ban the approval, denial, and "gross trivialization" of genocides or war crimes in the new paragraph 5 of section 130 of the German Penal Code, the *Strafgesetzbuch*.

## Gallery

Image:HolodomorUcrania9.jpg|Passers-by ignore the corpse of a starved man on a street in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1932.
Image:GolodomorKharkiv.jpg|Passers-by ignore corpses of starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, Ukraine, 1933.
Image:Children are digging up frozen potatoes in the field of a collective farm. Udachne village, Donec’k oblast. 1933.jpg|Children are digging up frozen potatoes in the field of a collective farm in Udachne village, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine, 1933.
File:Holodomor-Chicago.jpg|Chicago's American front page depicting Holodomor's starvation to death of six million Ukrainians.
File:6 aug top daily express Holodomor Genocide.jpg|Daily Express pictures on Holodomor genocide by forced starvation of six million Ukrainian peasants.
File:Holodomor Chicago American March 3 1935 on Holodomor genocide.jpg|Photo by Thomas Walker in Chicago American, reporting people eating cats and dogs to survive in Soviet Ukraine, 1935.
File:15th anniversary of Holodomor - postcard.jpg|"1933. 15th anniversary. 8.000.000 victims of hunger in Ukraine". A postcard printed in Germany by Ukrainian Youth Association for the 15th anniversary of Holodomor.
File:Golodomor Stamps of Ukraine.JPG|Stamp of Ukraine of the year 1993.
File:HolodomorKyivSvichky.jpg|"Light the candle" event at a Holodomor memorial in Kyiv, Ukraine.
File:Holodomor-andrushivka.jpg|Memorial at the Andrushivka village cemetery, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine.
File:HolodomormonumentPoltava.jpg|Memorial in Poltava Oblast, Ukraine.
File:HolodomorWindsor.jpg|Holodomor Memorial in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

## Recognition
## Related pages
* Ruscism
* The Holocaust
* Rwandan genocide
* Cambodian genocide
* Soviet persecution of Poles during World War II

## Footnotes
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