The Ukrainian Museum in New York is hosting an exhibit on the Holodomor, starting on Tuesday.
Stalin boasted privately that 10 million people – 25% of Ukraine’s population – had perished during the Holodomor. At least 3 million of the victims were children.
Despite the magnitude of the atrocity, the Soviet regime, behind its Iron Curtain, denied the existence of the Holodomor for decades, denouncing any reports as “anti-Soviet propaganda.” It was not until the breakup of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the subsequent establishment of an independent Ukraine that the contents of many sealed government archives were uncovered, exposing a wealth of gruesome information.
Much of that information is included in Holodomor: Genocide by Famine, which consists of 96 panels of photographs, documents, government reports, eyewitness accounts, and other archival material detailing virtually every aspect of the tragedy.
The photo below shows peasants swarming a railroad station in 1933, trying to get to cities in search of food. From: The Ukrainian Museum Archives.
Stalin was such a scary dude. I’d heard bits about the famine before but not a lot. Thanks for the link.
Most people in the western world haven’t heard of it. The whitewashing of this huge genocide was Stalin’s biggest “success”.
I got thinking about it and I don’t know that I ever registered the idea of the famine in the Ukraine being genocide. Though I did read somewhere that grain was still being taken from the area by the gov’t, despite the desperate need for it right there. Apparently my deductive powers were nil at the time.
Hi Karen,
Famine is an inaccurate word I guess, because it sounds passive. Soviet soldiers were stationed between the borders of Ukraine and Russia. Grain and other food was shipped out of Ukraine and stockpiled in Russia, where much of it rotted. A Ukrainian who was caught with five or more stalks of wheat would be shot for treason. Stalin himself admitted to 10 million dying in the famine.
quote from Rev Branham on genocide. Stalin mentioned too.
Looked like when the Roman empire scattered them, when others scattered them, when they was hated by Hitler, tens of thousands times thousands he shot bubbles in their veins and they died; you could see their bodies hanging on fences with their babies and everything else, and bones… And took and made fertilize out of their bones. Just take them out there and give them a shot, put them in the wagon. Then get out, time they get out near the start, they was singing, “Messiah will come and we’ll drink the blood of the grape again.” When they went down, dying, them Jews, walking around there, knowing in a few little beats and their heart would be gone. And down they’d go, singing, “We will see the Messiah soon.” Oh, my. Making fertilize out of their bones…
A lot of you soldiers in here know that; you seen it. I stood on the grounds where they burned them and everything else, there, Hitler and them. And look up at Stalin and Russia and all them done the same thing. That’s right. But that Jew, what was the matter? He was forced back to his homeland. There’s where they’re standing.
I got that great film, “Three Minutes Before Midnight.” When them Jews come in, it was asked them, said, “Why you coming back for, to die in the homeland?”
Said, “We’ve come to see the Messiah.” Amen. Um. We’re at the end time.
God have mercy