Other Instances of Genocide
Armenia
The Balkans & Bosnia
East Timor
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General sites addressing the issue of genocide
Freedom, Democracy, Peace; Power, Democide, and War
The Center for
Comparative Genocide Studies of Macquarie University (Australia)
Journal of Genocide
Research (New site & journal, July 21, 1998)
Web Genocide
Documentation Centre: Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
Rwanda
The
Triumph of Evil
Ukraine
InfoUkes: The
Artificial Famine in Ukraine 1932-33
In 1932, the Soviets increased the grain procurement quota for Ukraine
by 44%. They were aware that this extraordinarly high quota would
result in a grain shortage, therefore resulting in the inability of
the Ukrainian peasant to feed themselves. Soviet law was quite clear
in that no grain could be given to feed the peasants until the quota
was met. Communist party officials with the aid of military trrops and
NKVD secret police units were used to move against peasants who may be
hiding grain from the Soviet government. Even worse, an internal
passport system was implemented to restrict movements of Ukrainian
peasants so that they could not travel in search of food. Ukrainian
grain was collected and stored in grain elevators that were guarded by
military units & NKVD secret police units while Ukrainians were
starving in the immediate area. The actions of this Moscow instigated
action was a deliberate act of genocide against the Ukrainian peasant.
These series of pages are intended to educate the general populace about
this little known event in Ukrainian history. InfoUkes hopes to add to
this series of pages in the upcoming year."
"A Man-Made Famine raged through Ukraine, the ethnic-Ukrainian region
of northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River region in 1932-33.
This resulted in the death of between 7 to 10 million people, mainly
Ukrainians. This was instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his
henchman Lazar Kaganovich. The main goal of this artificial famine was
to break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them
into collectivization. The famine was also used as an effective tool
to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occuring under
approval of the communist government in Ukraine. Moscow perceived this
as a threat to a Russo-Centric Soviet rule and therefore acted to
crush this cultural renaissance in a most brutal manner.
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