It is believed that the Holodomor was a planned, man-made famine by Joseph Stalin to eliminate the Ukrainian Independence Movement...
killing an estimated 12 million people, and is often compared to the Jewish Holocaust of the Second World War.
The word 'Holodomor' translated into English means, murder by hunger, starvation and exhaustion. Holod meaning hunger and Mor meaning plague.
Even using the words; Holodomor, hunger and famine in a sentence were forbidden.
There was knowledge of a Soviet famine on the horizon as far back as 1930 but there was no preventive action taken. Stalin rejected any outside aid. He confiscated all household food and limited any population movement, defining Holodomor as genocide.
Cannibalism during the Holodomor was well documented.
A woman doctor wrote in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that she shall not be one by the time her letter reached her friend. The good people died first, she wrote. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children.
The Soviet regime printed posters declaring, "To eat your own children is a barbarian act. More than 2500 people were convicted and sentenced to death for cannibalism.
The Soviets long denied that any such famine had ever occurred, and that it all was just propaganda.
Tell that to the 12 million that died, eh?
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