The Ukrainian Genocide

Mara Caldwell
Ukrainian Peoples Republic

1917 - 1921, Constant conflict for

Ukraine

- Red Army
- White Army
- Invaders (Germans and Poles)
USSR Reclaims Ukraine and the First Starvation
1921, Soviet Victory

1922, Drought
Lenins Death and Stalins Change in Policy
1924, Lenins Death

National Revival
Movement

Stalin implements
Russian policy and
methods (4 aims)
BEGINNING OF GENOCIDE (ROOT)
Introduction of Collectivization
1928, collectivization introduced

Aimed to feed people in industrial cities and

generate revenue for industrialization
Ukraines Backbone (Kulaks)

Agricultural economy (80% of pop.)

Kulaks = owned more than 24 acres or

employed farm workers

Threat to Communist ideology

Dekulakization
1929, Stalin implements policies
of class-warfare

Kulaks = enemies of the people

Laws forbid people from helping

1930, 1.5m fall to policy

10m taken and deported to

Siberia
Resistance

Cheka gets sent in and systematically kill

HOLODOMOR (Ukrainian Famine)
Increase in Quotas
Aug 1932 - Jan 1933, Stalin increases quotas for foodstuffs to USSR

Dumped into foreign markets

Summer 1932, laws for execution of theft

Blockades and the Purge of the Communist Party

Blockades and closed borders

Communists ask for aid and reduction of quotes, 100,000 soldiers sent in
Starvation and Torment
Mothers throw children on trains

Dead bodies picked up off streets

Cannibalism

Animals were fed

Food stored in open

The Numbers
1933, End of Holodomor
Denial (USSR)
Denial (western)
Any report of a famine in Russia is today an exaggeration or malignant
propaganda. There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but
there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
(Pulitzer-prize winner Walter Duranty, NY Times)
The Genocide Question
Only 18 countries have acknowledged the events in Ukraine as a Genocide

Soviet regime's re-direction

Ethnic Genocide of already drought-reduced
grain supplies to attain
economic and political goals
Was the Holodomor a Genocide?
If so how can you prove it?