The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933, Ukraine's capital at the time
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.
Starvation during the Holodomor, Kharkivshchyna, 1933. Photo by Alexander Wienerberger
Passers-by and the corpse of a starved man on a street in Kharkiv, 1932
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991. Under the Soviet one-party model, the Ukrainian SSR was governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union through its republican branch, the Communist Party of Ukraine.
Bolshevik commissars in Ukraine (1919).
Soviet Russia in Europe.
Draft constitution of the Soviet Union (1937).
Soviet soldiers preparing rafts to cross the Dnieper during the Battle of the Dnieper (1943). The sign in Russian reads: "Let's get Kiev!"
