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Anna’s History Class - Part Two - Holodomor 🧵

In 1932 Russia committed genocide of #Ukraine called #Holodomor. Man made starvation of 7 million to 10 million people in one year.

Here is what they did

1. As part of Stalin collectivization, he needed both collective state land and workers for Russian dream of slavery. Russians targeted farmers at first, confiscating all private farms, organizing them into state run large farms and putting to work for nothing farmers they stole

2. Land from. They forced farmers to work in exchange for not being jailed or executed. Ukrainian farmers have ancient connection to land, to wheat. Russians set unreasonable quotas on purpose to have reason to destroy Ukranian farmers. Even though Ukraine had good harvest

3. Russians passed laws making it illegal to own or have grain. Now they target all Ukrainians. Any grain, even morsel taken, was theft from state punishable by gulag or execution. Russia then passed law that made it illegal to own any food items.

4. Anything could be food and could be confiscated and people forcibly deported or put in gulag or executed. Russians confiscated even doors and windows as contraband food. Russians burned down fruit trees, berry bushes. They poisoned fishing wells. They slaughtered livestock.

5. When Ukrainians ran to Russian border to beg for food, Russia did something never done. They sealed whole border around all of Ukraine to lock us inside. Anyone caught trying to cross border was executed. To cover up why so many starving Ukrainians were seen at borders

6. Of Poland and Belarus, Russia launched propaganda campaign. Same campaign they used to justify pogroms, genocide of Jews all over Russian empire. Holodomor is important part of WWII history that Russia suppressed for 80 years. This genocide is directly tied to Russian

7. Involvement in Holocaust, which they deny. In fact this entire decade is missing from Russian history. I will discuss Holocaust in Lesson 3. But for you to understand how Russians were able to cover up this crime against humanity, you have to understand Russian propaganda

8. In 1903 Russian monarchists published most infamous antisemitic hoax in history to justify genocide of Jews all over Russian empire called pogroms. Protocols of Elders of Zion. encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/art…

9. To cover up Holodomor, Soviet Russians recast villain of Protocols as Ukrainian monster called Kulak. You can see same obese, greedy spider with ethnic features from original to Kulak. And this is who Russians blamed crimes of Holodomor on. As cover to oppress and murder more

10. Ukrainians, Russians embark on pogroms of de-kulakization. Sound familiar? Like denazification? And you notice how it is greedy Zelinskyy they cast as villain this time? Russians genocide 7-10 million souls in one year during Holodomor. But actual numbers will never

11. Be known because so many were forcibly deported, executed and thrown in mass graves. Others starved to death and died in homes or fell over in streets. And to this day Russians deny they did this. It’s illegal to talk about Holodomor in Russia unless you are debunking it.

12. And to this day Russians don’t answer this basic question. Where did they get grain from they fund Nazi Germany with when they were allied? We know they did not give it to Russian poor when they steal it from us.

13. In one decade there were 2 genocides that exterminated tens of millions of souls. One genocide was used to steal resources and second genocide was funded by those stolen resources.

14. One of first things Russians did in occupied areas in this latest genocide is remove memorials to Holodomor. They wanted to erase their last genocide while committing it again in 2022. pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/…

15. If you want to learn more about Holodomor, this book by American scholar @TimothyDSnyder is very good

16. You can watch testimonies of victims or visit Holodomor museum holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/

17. Here is one victim account of many you can read or watch. My family was also killed in Holodomor and my grandmother survived to tell me what happened.

18. You can watch Bitter Harvest film that dramatizes partisan uprisings

19. You can watch Mr Jones film that shows real life fight of Welsh journalist to alert world to what Russia was doing and how American New York Times cover it up

20. Most important of all thing you can do is help us stop Russia from completing another genocide of #Ukraine.

Because Russians themselves outline in policy they release at start of 2022 invasion plan to eradicate 20 million of us. snyder.substack.com/p/russias-geno…