Голодомор

Holodomor

Ukrainian Genocide1932-1933

Capital City – Kiev Since year 882, many kingdoms have

controlled this region. 882-1199 The region was controlled by the

Kievan Rus’. In 1199 The Kingdom of Galicia–Volhynia

took over until 1649. Cossack Hetmanate reigned Ukraine

starting in 1649. It was named the Ukrainian National

Republic in 1917, and renamed West Ukrainian National Republic one year later.

In 1922 it became the Ukrainian SSR under Soviet Reign.

In 1991 Ukraine regained independence from the Soviet Union.

Ukraine-Background Information

The Holodomor began in 1922 and ended a year later.

Despite the short timeline, there were many deaths.

Somewhere between 6 and 10 million citizens died in Soviet Ukraine.

Ukrainian Genocide

It has been a political debate, whether the Ukrainian famine was a result of poor economy during Soviet Industrialization in Ukraine, or a direct attack on Ukrainian Nationalism.

Population Declination of Ukraine after the Holodomor

This has been long debated since the start of the Holodomor.

All sides agree on putting Joseph Stalin at fault, but each for different charges.

It is still not agreed upon whether the Holodomor was a genocide.

Robert Conquest, a British historian, claimed that this famine was a deliberate act of mass murder.

Was it a Genocide?

Countries and regions that have recognized Holodomor as a genocide

Years after the Holodomor ended the Soviet Union Propaganda kept everything they knew about the genocide a secret.

When the citizens started catching on to the government, the Soviet Union resorted to denial.

President Mikhail Kalinin and Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov told their citizens, and the entire world that none of it happened well into the 1980’s.

This lie, beginning under Stalin was a “successful lie”.

It was successful, not in terms of the impact, but in terms of the length of time they were able to keep this a secret, nearly 50 years.

Soviet Denial

World-wide Holodomor Memorials

Winnipeg, Canada

Kiev, Ukraine

Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine