Pro-Russian separatists are teaching students in southeastern Ukraine that a forced famine in the 1930’s was not a genocide but a “tragedy” that befell the entire Soviet Union, the New York Times reported. Anywhere from 3 million to 10 million Ukrainians starved to death in the the Holodomor, translated as “killing by means of hunger,” which historians say was an attempt by Stalin to quell Ukrainian nationalism after the country first declared independence in 1918. Historians agree that the famine falls under the legal definition of genocide as it deliberately targeted a large group of people — in this …read more
Source: Business Insider
