Holodomor
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The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian famine, was a massive man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet fami
Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933, Ukraine's capital at the time
Postcard commemorating the 15th anniversary of the Holodomor, which shows Stalin looking at his kolkhoz built on a pile of starved Ukrainians. Published in 1948 by the Ukrainian Youth Association.
A "Red Train" of carts from the "Wave of Proletarian Revolution" collective farm in the village of Oleksiyivka, Kharkiv oblast in 1932. "Red Trains" took the first harvest of the season's crop to the government depots. During the Holodomor, these brigades were part of the Soviet Government's policy of taking away food from the peasants.
A print from a postcard designed by Zofia Nalepińska-Bojczuk, referring to the Holodomor, 1935
Dekulakization
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Dekulakization was a campaign of repression in the Soviet Union directed against so-called kulaks, a loosely defined category of supposedly wealthy or exploitative peasants. The campaign involved mass
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…of thousands" in the Kuban Over 300,000 Ukrainians in Kazakhstan dead or migrated Causes Industrialization policy during the first five year plan Dekulakization Soviet collectivization of farming Intentional starvation of Ukrainians (disputed) Relief Foreign relief rejected by the state. 176,200 and 325,000…
A parade under the banners "We will liquidate the kulaks as a class" and "All to the struggle against the wreckers of agriculture"
Children of kulaks in Northern krai, 1930
Kulak women in a forest cutting 1930
1930s Soviet propaganda poster stating: "Oust kulaks from kolkhozes!"