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DEFINITION HOLODOMOR noun: ho lo do `mor<\/strong> Ukraine is the largest country entirely in Europe. Ukraine was called the breadbasket of Europe because of its rich soil. In 1922, Ukraine was incorporated into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR \u2013 Soviet Union). In 1926 per the census in Soviet Ukraine, farming communities made up 82% of the population. CAUSES of the Holodomor<\/strong> Joseph Stalin\u2019s first 5 Year Plan<\/strong> First \u2013 Attack on Intellectuals \u2013 the BRAIN<\/strong> Second \u2013 Attack on the Ukrainian Church – the SOUL<\/strong> Third \u2013 Attack the Farmers – the SPIRIT<\/strong>
The term Holodomor (\u201cdeath inflicted by starvation\u201d in Ukrainian) refers to the man-made famine that caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 as a result of Soviet policies. The Holodomor can be seen as the culmination of an assault by the Communist Party and Soviet state on the Ukrainian farming population, who resisted Soviet policies.
Source: Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC) and Holodomor in Ukraine by Valentina Kuryliw<\/span><\/p>
Source: HREC and Holodomor in Ukraine by Valentina Kuryliw<\/span><\/p>
When Joseph Stalin came to power in 1928, he set out to rapidly industrialize the USSR. To pay for this rapid industrialization, he seized control of farming in Ukraine so that he could sell on the international market the grain grown by Ukrainian farmers. The peasant farmers (89% of Ukrainian population) were forced, often through violence, to give up their land, their equipment, and their animals, and to become simply workers on state-run collective farms.<\/p>
During Stalin\u2019s first 5 Year Plan, the Soviet Government in 1928 to 1933 attacked the following groups in Ukraine:<\/p>
In 1930, a group of Ukrainian intellectuals, teachers, and university students — a total of 45 — were accused of belonging to a fictitious anti-Soviet organization and were convicted in show trials. The result was that Ukrainian language and culture were linked to subversion and thus treasonous, and on that premise, some 30,000 people were arrested, sent to the Gulag or executed.
Source: HREC and encyclopediaofukraine.com \u2013 Union for the Liberation of Ukraine (SVU)<\/span><\/p>
The Ukrainian Autocephalous (independent) Orthodox churches were closed and destroyed. The priests and the entire hierarchy of the church were sent to labor camps or executed and 10,000 clergy were liquidated.
Source: HREC and Holodomor in Ukraine by Valentina Kuryliw<\/span><\/p>
Farmers were forced to join the collective farms, or be sent to labor camps (the Gulag). The authorities imposed high unrealistic grain quotas. When quotas could not be met, they were blacklisted, and all foodstuff was withheld from them. Teams were sent house to house, searching and removing what little food remained. A law was introduced that made the theft of even a few stalks of grain an act of sabotage punishable by execution. Millions of people starved; children were orphaned, abandoned, and died.
Source: HREC and Holodomor in Ukraine by Valentina Kuryliw<\/span><\/p>