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Holodomor

Definition

The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. It is often attributed to Stalin's policies.

Analogy

Imagine if someone controlled all food distribution in your town and decided not to give any food to certain neighborhoods because they didn't support this person’s ideas or actions – that’s similar to what happened during Holodomor.

Related terms

Collectivization: This was a policy pursued by communist governments where agricultural land was taken from individual farmers and combined into large, state-run farms. It's like if all the small businesses in your town were forced to merge into one big corporation run by the government.

Great Purge: This was a campaign of political repression in the Soviet Union that occurred from 1936 to 1938. It involved widespread arrests, executions, and purges of the Communist Party and government officials. Imagine a school where students are expelled not for breaking rules but for disagreeing with the principal.

Genocide: This is an intentional action to destroy a people—usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial, or religious group—in whole or in part. It’s like someone trying to eliminate all fans of a particular music band because they don’t like that band.

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