Remembering the Holodomor, the terror-famine Russia inflicted in Ukraine, amid Russia’s latest violence against its neighbor.
… The interpretation of the causes, scope, and effects of Stalin’s assault on the traditional, productive agriculture and industrious peasant farmers of Ukraine in the interests of forced Communist collectivization of farms and the export for hard cash of Ukrainian grain to Western countries was a major controversy until the fall of Russian Communism in the early 1990s, and apologists for Putin’s regime still deny its uniqueness, scope, and significance — indeed, its very existence as a historical fact.
