holodomor origin and use hi i'm sorry i referred to the topic in question as a 'conspiracy theory' i need to learn to censor myself better on wikipedia in any case i can share my experience with the word growing up in the soviet union in the s i was aware of the term 'golodomor' in russian transliteration as the the great famine of early s throughout the soviet union predominantly in the ukraine but also in southern russia due to the policies of the collectivisation and de kulakization there was no connection or comparisons to holocaust in my mind in part because the term holocaust was not in use in the general discourse it was as if wwii happened but holocaust did not that was really weird now the term holocaust in russian is much more common however the two words look differently in russian gogolomor and holokost so that's why with my background is hard to see a connection although i'm more aware now of how it became a political rather than just a historic term hope this clarifies my perspective again sorry about the choice of language on the holodomor talk page