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
Great Purge
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The Great Purge or Great Terror, also known as the Year of '37 and the Yezhovshchina, was a political purge in the Soviet Union from 1936 to 1938. After the assassination of Sergei Kirov by Leonid Nik
Residents searching the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943
Excerpt from NKVD Order No. 00447
Leningrad party leader Sergei Kirov with Stalin and his daughter, Svetlana, in 1934
Bolshevik revolutionaries Leon Trotsky, Lev Kamenev, and Grigory Zinoviev