🧵: Ukraine’s Executed Renaissance. In the 1920s-1930s, Stalin and the Community Party waged a campaign of terror not only against Ukrainian farmers via collectivization and the Holodomor, but also against an entire generation of Ukrainian cultural and literary leaders. 1/9 Ukraine experienced a period of Ukrainization after the 1917 revolution. Tsarist coercive russification policies softened and Ukrainian language and culture could flourish. In 1929, Stalin's new policies called for a “cultural revolution” via a return to russification. 2/9

🧵: Collectivization in the USSR. In 1928, Stalin introduced a new policy aimed at converting privately owned land and crops 🌾 into property of the state. These collective farms were called kolhozy. 1/6 Farmers who resisted the process were referred to as kulaks (the word for fist), for not wanting to open their ‘greedy’ fists and build a socialist world. “We will eliminate the kulaks as a class,” Stalin said. They were vilified as enemies of the state and exiled or killed. 2/6

🧵: Making sure your Ukraine coverage is Ukraine-centered. Rampant russian propaganda has planted false narratives for years and the West views russian aggression and Ukraine's prospects through its own subjective lens. The solution: consuming a range of Ukrainian content. 1/14 Ukrainian English-language independent media deliver breaking news, first-person narratives, and glimpses into Ukrainian life, culture, and history. They are experts on the Ukrainian context. 2/14
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