Ukraine 1932 facts
While investigating facts about Ukraine 1932, I found out little known, but curios details like:
There was a man-made famine genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 that was hidden from media up until the 1980s
The Holodomor, mass-deaths resulting from man-made famine in Ukraine during 1932. The highest estimates of death tolls rival the Holocaust with anywhere from 3 to 12 million killed.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about Ukraine 1932 I managed to collect.
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The Soviet Union imposed a man-made famine on Ukraine which deliberately starved nearly 7.5 million ethnic Ukrainians to death in 1932-1933. Russia continues to vehemently dispute it being labelled an act of genocide, claiming it was simply a side-effect of the switch to a Communist system.
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The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.During the Holodomor, millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.
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A journalist named Walter Duranty wrote a series of reports denying that mass starvation in Ukraine (the Holodomor) was taking place. For that, he won the 1932 Pulitzer Prize in correspondence. To this day, the New York Times still refuses to relinquish the award.
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At least 2,505 people were sentenced for cannibalism in the years 1932-1933 in Ukraine, though the actual number of cases was certainly much higher.
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Stalin ordered the Holodomor, a man-made famine which in 1932 Soviet Ukraine which killed more people than the Holocaust
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I Learned that the accusation of Joseph Stalin intentionally manufacturing a famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 was a myth(which is also a view that is accepted with many historians and sovietologists)
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About the Holodomor, a man-made famine from 1932-33 in Soviet Ukraine which killed more people than the Holocaust
