Holomodor
Has anyone here ever heard of this? I watched Glenn Beck's show on Friday and it was a documentary called "Live Free or Die" and a portion of it was about the genocide of the farmers and people under Stalin reign. Over 10,000,000 (yes that is ten million) people died of famine in one year due to the policies of Stalin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HolodomorAs of March 2008, Ukraine and nineteen other governments have recognized the actions of the Soviet government as an act of genocide. The joint statement at the United Nations in 2003 has defined the famine as the result of cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, Russians, Kazakhs and other nationalities in the USSR. On 23 October 2008 the European Parliament adopted a resolution that recognized the Holodomor as a crime against humanity.
The researcher said that Stalin was experimenting with a new type of governance - the government collected the grain (for exporting) and then rationed it back to the people who used to own the farms and who were working the fields. When people started staving he said to "educate them on how to eat less"....................his little experiment to quelch nationalism in the Ukraine cost over 10,000,000 lives.
I think you would call the experiment "socialism" or "collectivism".
This is a quote from a communist leader speaking in the Kharkiv region in 1934:
"Famine in Ukraine was brought on to decrease the number of Ukrainians, replace the dead with people from other parts of the USSR, and thereby to kill the slightest thought of any Ukrainian independence."
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