The Holodomor or Terror Famine in the Ukraine is a historical event that never even happened. That is, there was indeed a famine, and a very bad one at that. But it was not a terror famine or deliberate genocidal famine.
Instead, in one year, the harvest collapsed for a variety of reasons, resulting in a famine. Most of the people who died were felled by disease, typically cholera. There were no 6 or 8 or 10 million killed in the Ukraine. The famine killed 5.4 million, half of them in the Ukraine, so 2.7 million people died in the Ukraine. And the people who are most upset about it are Ukrainian nationalists from Western Ukraine. They were living in Poland at the time and were spared the famine. In contrast, the pro-Russian area called Novorussia presently in rebellion against Ukraine was hit very hard as was the Rostov region and the Lower Don, which was pro-USSR at the time and remained so afterwards.
People neglect to discuss the kulak’s role in the famine. They destroyed much of the grain crop in the Ukraine by setting it on fire. They also piled it in piles and left it out in the rain to rot. In addition, kulaks killed half the livestock in the USSR. Figures below:
Kulaks killed 60% of the livestock in the USSR from 1928-1933. The numbers of horses in the USSR fell from 30 to 15 million – 50% of the horses were killed by kulaks, the cattle population dropped from 70 to 38 million – the kulaks killed 46% of the cows, sheep and goats from 147 to 50 million – the kulaks killed 66% or 2/3 sheep and goats in the country.
There is a lie that all Ukrainians hated the USSR and joined hands with the Nazi invaders. It is true that many Ukrainians especially in the west welcomed the Nazis with open arms, but 500,000 Ukrainians fought as partisans, and 4.5 million Ukrainians fought in the Red Army.
It is also said that Ukrainians overwhelmingly hated the USSR. This is not true either. In fact, the majority of Ukrainian peasants and workers supported collectivization after it was finally put in. They perceived the Soviet system as offering great economic and cultural advantages. Agricultural and industrial output exploded after the “Holodomor” compared to before.
