A recent Ukrainian immigrant was telling me that she got the scoop on the Holdomor of the 1920s from her old-timey relatives.
People were asking her about the genocide of Ukraine so she called back to her relatives in Ukraine who had lived through it to get the story.
They told here that there was famine and it was government-created but
- it was not only Ukraine that was affected. Volgograd area and Kazakstan also suffered.
- The government seized food from these places to pay for its five-year industrial plan. so it was not genocide for the sake of killing people but as a form of taxation or economic redistribution.
So that was her contribution to the fund of common knowledge. And now mine.
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