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Stalin's Plan of Forced Collectivization and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 | 🧵Considered by many historians to be Stalin's most horrifying campaign, "forced collectivization" was the well-organized plan to crush the Ukrainian peasants by massive starvation... #Ukraine

...by confiscating all available food throughout the regions of Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga river area in 1932 to 1933. The effect of this "artificial" man-made famine was the complete breaking of the peasants' will to resist collectivization of farmland..

leaving the population politically, socially, and psychologically traumatized. Stalin's plan and the methods by which it was carried out are almost too horrifying to imagine: the execution or deportation of any man, woman, or child...

taking even the most minute amount of grain in order to stay their hunger, the confiscation of "seed grain" from peasant farmers, and the merciless war waged against anyone who refused to give up their grain resulting in the deaths of millions.

The reaction to the slaughtering of livestock (by the farmers so it would not fall into the hands of the state) and the intentional ruining of the farmland by letting it become overgrown with weeds and grass, was to swiftly punish the farmers who chose to rebel by execution...

The people were almost starving. Their animals were dead. I'll tell you more, there wasn't a cat or dog in the whole village, and that is not a good sign... Instead of two hundred and fifty families there were only seventy-three, and all of them were half-starved.

Historian Clarence A. Manning in his book Ukraine Under the Soviets states "It is difficult to estimate the number who perished in the famine, but it was approximately 4,800,000. This is certainly an underestimate other calculationsplace the number between 5-6 million." #Soviet

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