Sunday, November 26, 2017

REMEMBERING THE UKRAINIAN GENOCIDE

Between 1923 and 1933, between four and 10 million Ukrainians died of starvation as the former Soviet Union sought to collectivize farming and replace Ukrainian peasants with more compliant Soviet villagers. Families were forced to surrender their food and kept from leaving their villages in search of more.
It’s important for the world to understand the scale of the genocide, said Broda, because it’s directly related to the current conflict.


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