Holodomor
Ukrainian genocide famine
The Holodomor was a Soviet-engineered famine in Ukraine in 1932–33 that killed millions of Ukrainians.
Stalin's regime seized grain and blocked food supplies, deliberately starving the population to crush Ukrainian resistance to collectivization.
The word comes from Ukrainian meaning "death by hunger." Whether it constitutes genocide remains politically contested, though Ukraine and many nations recognize it as such.
Severe food shortage
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- UkraineEastern European sovereign state
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
- SovietOf the USSR
collectivization · kulaks · dekulakization · mass murder · ethnic cleansing · atrocity · death toll · extermination
Thing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- survivorsThose still alive after
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
diaspora · November · candle · wheat · genocide denial · awareness · documentation · oral history
Half-decade strategic roadmap
- collective farmsJointly worked agricultural land
- quotaFixed assigned amount
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- peasantryRural working class
famine
Severe food shortage
- starvationExtreme nutritional deprivation
- UkraineEastern European sovereign state
- StalinSoviet autocrat, mid-century
Soviet · collectivization · kulaks · dekulakization · mass murder · ethnic cleansing · atrocity · death toll · extermination · persecution
memorial
Thing preserving remembrance
- remembranceAct of holding something in mind
- recognitionPerceiving something as known
- survivorsThose still alive after
testimony · diaspora · November · candle · wheat · genocide denial · awareness · documentation · oral history · museum
five-year plan
Half-decade strategic roadmap
- collective farmsJointly worked agricultural land
- quotaFixed assigned amount
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
Holodomornatural disaster
Catastrophic environmental event
drought · blight · crop failure · act of God · Irish Potato Famine
Holodomorfamine relief
Assistance during mass hunger
Marshall Plan · humanitarian aid · food aid · welfare state · New Deal
Holodomorabundance
Ample supply, overflowing
plenty · food security · feast · harvest · bumper crop