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<Tab/>Historically Russia has largely depended on the abundant resources of the Ukrainian Republic. Throughout the early years of Communism rule the economic policies instituted were opposed by the independent minded Ukrainian people. Their attempts to sabotage and undermine socialist authority failed as the Russians suppressed them through deliberate starvation. The Ukraine was forced to submit to socialism as they experienced two massive man-made famines within a decade under the iron …

…It is from the south that the grain will leave; it will precisely pass through the country where 4 million people are starving and will probably not be able to survive until spring" (Ukrainian Weekly). The initial economic policies of the Socialist government in the Soviet Union were carried out by paying the high price of human sacrifice; only a decade later, Stalin found himself committing similar atrocities in the Ukraine. <Tab/>