Genocide In Ukraine In The 1930's

The famine that happened in the Ukraine was genocide and one of the most traumatic ones. A famine is huge shortage of food; the Ukraine experienced a forced famine because of the Soviet Union, leader Joseph Stalin. The main background of the genocide is that the ‘man made’ famine was done to get rid of the Ukrainian pride and oppress the people by taking away their needed essentials (food/homes). The Holodomor was death from being hungry and starving. The Holodomor took place in all Ukraine. It was one of the most traumatic genocides. The Holodomor took place during the 1930’s. The group and person who had committed the genocide was the Soviet Union for Ukraine and but mainly organized by Stalin. The genocide was against the Ukrainian people,

This was known as renaissance of the national consciousness. The Ukrainians wanted to claim the independence of their country. Without the Ukraine, Russia would fail to be an empire on its own and the fact that the Ukrainians wanted independence scared them. It was the Russian government against some Ukrainian members of the government (religious, intellectual and cultural leaders). There were many innocent people during this time of the genocide. The genocide carried out with many deportations and killings of the most successful farmers in the Ukraine so they wouldn’t be able to grow or produce the food for the people. It began with some farmers overpricing foods, even though the government knew that many of the people could not afford it, then the farmers that didn’t want to be collective were seen a threat and more and more people died from starvation. Most of the population that had died was children, and people were killed by “firing squads” “close to half a million individuals in Ukraine are dragged from their homes,” They were sent to concentration prison camps, and “packed into freight trains, and shipped to remote, uninhabited areas such as Siberia where they are left, often without food or