Thread by @abstractedaway

This was Ukraine in 1919. Notice the Kuban region, east of the sea? The Holodomor was, in part, targeted to wipe out the Ukrainian population there and forcibly russify that territory.
holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/news-museji…

"From 1927, in the Kuban, where Ukrainians accounted for 66% of the total population..."

"The self-identification of the Ukrainian population of Kuban decreased from 915,000 in 1926, to 150,000 in 1939. and to 61,867 in 2002." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian…

The above Wikipedia citation comes from "Stalin and the Soviet Famine of 1932 – 33 Revisited" by Michael Ellman, which must now be found on archive.org:
web.archive.org/web/2015051615…

The region's recent history was already the scene of #russianColonialism and an extreme case of genocide. The Tsars killed at least 400,000 Circassians, and forced 90% of the remaining population into diaspora.
mojust.org/tsitsekun-the-…

The Tsars resettled several major groups of Cossacks to cement their grip on the depopulated land. These people, in turn, would be targeted by the USSR for genocidal russification.

https://twitter.com/CanadianKobzar/status/1596389395367534592

All of this forcible resettlement and genocide in turn, the steady grind of #russianColonialism, underlines this point that Mariam Naiem made, one we in the west need to understand:

https://twitter.com/mariamposts/status/1529887179429883918

The Holodomor was recognized as genocide by the very scholar who invented the term. Human rights, everything we built on "Never Again" depends on our facing the Holodomor and #GenocideOfUkrainians today.
#russiaIsANaziState

https://twitter.com/CanadianKobzar/status/1596389402258726914

More than lands and boundaries of the past, focus on this: lives uprooted and shuffled about on the whims of despots. People sent into exile, abandoned to horror and despair.

Right now, millions of Ukrainians are forcibly deported, some 600,000+ children among them.

Though this thread started with a map, I encourage you to think of the human story.

Ukrainians speak of lives and loved ones, the dream ratified within 1991 borders, their neighbors also scarred by empire: Tatars, Georgians, Ossetians, Circassians and more.

#StandWithUkraine!

Louder for those at the back: Ukraine is fighting for its people and its 1991 borders, not 1919.

This is about visibility for the victims of the Holodomor. The 1919 population was after previous russian genocides, and a preamble to the 7+ million souls lost in the Holodomor.