Thread by @JBelcourt73

You might have seen the word #Holodomor going around. It is what the world calls the last #GenocideOfUkrainians by #Russia. A quick break down. Stalin needed cash to pay for a rapid industrialization of the Soviet economy. Grain sales were a major source of foreign currency.

Outwardly facing and using useful idiots like the @nytimes' Walter Duranty played up the idea of a workers and peasants paradise all the while knowing that starvation was occurring. Inwardly, the #Russian public was shown agit prop films and propaganda portraying the Ukrainian's

as evil counter-revolutionaries who were hoarding food and deserved to be punished. There were further problems stemming from collectivization leading to poorer yields and the whole was something between 3-7 million dead. If the upper number is true it represents a greater number

of people killed because of their identity than the #Holocaust though a much larger percentage of #Ukrainians survived Stalin than European Jews survived Hitler. This Holodomor or holocaust of Ukrainians is why so many Ukrainians welcomed the Nazis in June 1941. How could they

not, they did not know the devil arriving on panzers but they did know the devil with black booted NKVD executioners. Its also the root of Bandera's popularity. He killed Russians who delighted in killing Ukrainians. Of course Russia does not want you to know this. They want you

too assume that Bandera and Ukrainians hate for Russia sprang fully formed from Nazi Germany rather than as a responsive reflex from a people subjected to a Moscow directed famine so bad there are credible reports of cannibalism in a land that literally sprouts food from the

ground in such abundance that in 2022 the latest Russian war of #genocide caused fears of global famine. The world cheered on Stalin in 1932-33 because of Kleptograd's dis-info efforts. It is our duty 90 years later to quash similar efforts by similar actors. In fact that is one

two primary efforts of the #NAFO #FELLAS. The other being supporting the @georgian_legion specifically and other groups and charities like @belwarriors, @MriyaAid, @UkraineAidOps, @U24_gov_ua, @Teoyaomiquu and @3xR_team more generally. Additionally the world refused to help

#Ukraine and when the Allies disengaged from the Russian civil war the area was reabsorbed into a reborn Russian Empire called the USSR. We must not let that happen again. I tag @JohnBoozman, @SenTomCotton and @RepFrenchHill every day: send more, send better, send now. Ukraine

has pushed Russia back with victory after victory but much of Ukraine is still occupied and it must be freed. The deported populations must be returned and Russia's ability to pursue #colonialism and genocide must be curtailed. Never Again includes the Holodomor. Stand with them

as they fight to finally be free of #RussiaisATerroistState. Until Ukraine Wins On Ukraine's Terms: Slava Ukraini! #UkraineWillWin #RussiaIsLosing @mfa_russia <--- still losing and there is a bigger chance that Ukraine is here to remember the 100th anniversary of the Holodomor

than the Russian Federation still existing.

PS: despite Bandera being a national hero, and Russia calling Ukrainians "Banderites" as a synonym for Nazi. In Ukraine the far Right failed to win any seats in the Radar. Ukraine is a multi-ethnic multi-cultural society that tends to center-left not hard right.

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