(The Ukrainian Weekly, January 16-February 13, 1983) PART I The event which Ukrainians call “shtuchnyi holod,” the man-made famine, or sometimes even the Ukrainian holocaust, claimed an estimated 5 to 7 million victims. Purely in terms of mortality, it thus was of the same order of magnitude as the Jewish holocaust. It was, however, a...
The man-made famine of 1933 in Soviet Ukraine: what happened and why
By Ukrainian Weekly Editor70 Mins Read