The Artificial Famine
In the 1920s the USSR's New Economic Policy (NEP), designed to rehabilitate the postwar economy, helped rejuvenate agriculture in Ukraine. Anxious to attract popular support, the Soviet regime also introduced Ukrainization, a policy that encouraged the use of Ukrainian language and the development of national culture. Beginning in the late 1920s, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin brutally reversed both trends. Peasant landholdings were forcibly collectivized and crops were extorted to support industrialization. The result was a …
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…that this was not a famine caused by drought or natural causes. In 1983, the 50th anniversary of the famine, many people were outraged at the fact that it wasn’t even mentioned, but in the past few years more people have begun to talk about this issue and recognize this as an act of genocide.
The Ukraine became independent for the second time in the 20th century in 1991 after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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