Thread by @iamdylancurran

Today is a day you almost never hear about - Holodomor Remembrance Day, where we remember the 8 million Ukrainians who starved to death as a result of the communist regime.

Any mildly successful farmer was known as a 'kulak' and were killed or expelled to Siberia. If you were even mildly successful in the USSR, well you must have stolen it from someone else.

The new farmers, who were poor and inexperienced, were then given impossible grain quotas which were to then be collectivized and sent to the cities. The farmers weren't paid for it, and weren't allowed keep any grain for themselves.

In fact, it was a crime punishable by death to hide grain from the collectors, or to pick up any leftover crumbs to feed your family. Many families were slaughtered because they hid grain to feed their starving children. The food was then shipped to Moscow.

It's just bizarre to me how much you hear about Nazi tragedies, and yet nobody really knows about the collectivized starvation of a whole country, killing millions and millions. Communism gets a free pass in history classes for some reason.

Irish people should be able to empathize with what happened in the Ukraine considering our history with the famine.

To put it in perspective, imagine we said 'well that's not real Imperialism!' about the English.