Thread by @ErasedEvil

THIS has to be the most important thread to READ and SHARE.
What we're witnessing in Ukraine during the last 9 months isn't a new thing: in fact, Russians have been trying to destroy Ukrainians for centuries.
We must learn from history for the sake of our future.
Read below⬇️

1⃣What is the Holodomor?

Holodomor literally means "murder by hunger". Also known as the terrorist famine caused by the USSR.
Ukrainians of the XX century experienced famine three times - in 1921-1923, 1932-1933 and 1946-1947.

The Holodomor of 1932-1933 became the largest genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
By the end of 1933, according to various sources, at least 4.5 million Ukrainians slowly died of starvation.
Every year, Ukraine honors their memory on the last Saturday of November.

2⃣How it started

In the late 1920s, Stalin wanted to give the world a picture of the USSR as a superpower with developed cities. To ensure industrialization, he began to export agricultural surplus.
Ukraine played a central role as a powerful source of grain. However, soon the

USSR began to take not only surpluses from Ukrainians, but the entire property: from grain to land, and transfer it to the state. This was called collectivization.
Wealthy peasants of the USSR were called "Kurkuls".
They were immediately taken to camps in Siberia and Kazakhstan.

In 1931, almost the entire harvest was taken from the peasants in order to comply with the established harvest norms. This raised about 4,000 mass demonstrations by farmers.
The USSR didn't want to lose the "breadbasket of Europe" Ukraine.

Therefore, Stalin built a policy of extermination of the Ukrainian nation, disguised as plans to hand over bread to the state.

3⃣Murder by hunger as a Soviet policy of coercion into submission

In fact, collectivization meant the desire of the USSR to physically destroy Ukrainians.
This was masked by the official explanation that collectivization was necessary for the development of cities and the young

state in general.
In fact, it was complete seizure of all grain stocks, followed by the confiscation of other food and property as penalties for failure to carry out the plan. When poor crops and social resistance led to the failure of 1931 targets, Stalin ordered to eliminate

the "nationalist" and "counterrevolution" threats and "turn Ukraine into a model Soviet republic."
With the help of famine, the USSR tried to eliminate the danger of riots and uprisings, to destroy the resistance of Ukrainians and their sense of national identity,

because any otherness contradicted the ideology of the Soviet Union.
For him, the peasantry was the basis of the national movement, so he attacked the Ukrainian peasants as carriers of Ukrainian tradition, culture and language.

4⃣Why the Holodomor is an artificial famine

Pro-Russian historians and the authorities of the USSR tried to prove that the famine in Ukraine was the result of a drought and, accordingly, a crop failure.
However, the testimony of hundreds of peasants who survived the Holodomor,

say the opposite: gather was well, but everything was taken away by the Soviets.
The USSR introduced forced bread harvesting.
Each peasant had to give a certain amount of grain. All food was forcibly taken from peasants who could not pass this standard.

5⃣How the Holodomor of 1932-1933 was held

At the end of 1932, not only crops, but even all livestock were searched and seized from the peasants at gunpoint.
Party emissaries went from house to house in search of hidden food.
If people resisted confiscation, they were shot.

At the end of the year, up to 1 million Ukrainians died of hunger.
In January 1933, Ukraine's border with Belarus and Russia was closed. The roads to the big cities were blocked, and those who tried to break through were shot on the spot.

Ukrainians were blocked and could not avoid starvation.
Whole villages of bloated dead bodies lay on the ground until a truck arrived to pick up the dead (or still dying) and take them to the mass grave. Cases of cannibalism became common.

6⃣What does the world say

Many countries have now recognized this as an act of genocide, including #Poland, #theBalticStates, #Georgia, #theCzechRepublic, #Romania, #Australia, #Ireland, #Portugal, #theUnitedStates, #Canada, #Mexico, etc.

Russia was the most vocal critic of the campaign to draw attention to the Holodomor.
Russia, the legal successor of the USSR, claims that many regions of the USSR suffered from famine at the time, so there is no genocide in the famine in Ukraine.

In addition to killing witnesses to the Holodomor, Russia also hides Soviet archives related to the Holodomor. Most of them haven't yet been published.

This evil won't be erased from history, we remember everything.
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