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“You must survive this and tell the people of the world what has happened here, so it doesn’t happen again. Use your pencil and paper and weave your beautiful words to keep our memories alive. Don’t let me die in vain, Katya.”
Between 1932 and 1933, one in every eight Ukrainians died in this manmade famine.
Stalin’s refusal to lower grain quotas in the wake of these issues, led to an estimated 8.7 million deaths.
he targeted Ukraine with further brutal decrees in an attempt to subjugate the Ukrainian nationalism
In a stark reminder of the effectiveness of Stalin’s anti-Ukrainian policies, Ukraine lost 12.9 percent of its population.
Desperate people resorted to eating tree bark, leaves, grass, weeds, grains flushed out from vermin burrows, worms, tadpoles, baby birds, rotting livestock carcasses, crows, cats, dogs, and corn cobs.
Collectivization was declared a success and, in need of Stalin’s support against the threat of Hitler, world leaders ignored the truth of the Holodomor. Any
