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Holodomor 1921-1923

Part 9

Since the bread was delivered to the mines and not to the villages, the peasants in Donetsk region were given a dubious advantage.
As a result, other

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unproductive provinces did not even receive such concessions from the government, and local authorities began to act at their own risk.

Under pressure from local authorities, Rakovsky proposed to the Ukrainian Economic Council to consider the issue of state aid to

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unproductive provinces of the Ukrainian SSR.

Instead of the 90 wagons of promised bread, only 44 wagons were transferred. This was due to the fact that Soviet Russia and the Donbas were in the first place on the minds of the rulers.

The situation with food aid was not

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better in other poor areas. In December 1921, mass deaths in the southern provinces of the USSR finally forced the disciplined Ukrainian Bolsheviks to oppose the policy of the party center at the VI All-Ukrainian Conference of the CP(b)U.

M. Skrypnyk, one of the most

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authoritative of Communist Party of Ukraine, took the initiative in this "rebellion on his knees."

In meeting the needs of the Kyiv region for food and seeds.

This decision was the first step in the implementation of the plan to help the starving population of the USSR,

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which the UER instructed the People's Commissariat of the USSR to prepare in early December 1921.

However, the UER's decision was departmental in nature and its implementation depended entirely on Moscow's position.

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