The Holodomor Famine: Causes And Consequences

Research and Relevance

History records that between 1928 to1933 there was terrible famine that affected the agriculture in the Ukrainian region. Conversely, this led to a catastrophic starvation was also famously known as Holodomor genocide, targeting the natives that lead to the eventual death in the millions. This was also known as the terror famine –genocide  since it killed millions of Ukrainians. The artificial famine was initially triggered by the native struggle of the far-right who strongly opposed socialism. Nonetheless, the intentionally imposed famine was incited by the United Soviet state leadership in order to suppress the Kulaks far-right movement who had nationalist aspirations by trying to dislodge from the Soviet States. According to research, this angered him and was among the initial causes of the supreme leader to blight the food shortage as a hideous maneuver to suppress the additional and widespread of the peasants that resisted the ideology of its governance.

Throughout the late twenty to the thirties, the United Soviet State regime was under the brutal leadership of Joseph Stalin. However, during that time the Hitlerites who were strongly affiliated by the Soviet principal exploited propaganda and directives and orders that purposefully mobilized the western forces that comprised of Ukrainian Nazis and Germany. Consequently, these forces organized a starvation that purges millions of Ukrainian people through a famine that was considered a massacre owing to the fact that in reality a certain class of people mostly Jews were targeted. Therefore, this paper highlights the events leading to the drought and eventual famine showing the roles that individuals in dictatorship gamboled.

Needless to say, the cold-blooded famine was deliberately and systematically committed in different ways that the western forces took advantage. Accordingly, the famine had four main sources that can be explained as progressive events that the Hitlerites.

The famine by the Ukrainian citizen was initially aggravated by a civil war led by the kulaks and the reactionary elements of Tsarism who were being rebellious by fighting against the collectivization of agriculture. Joseph stalins strategy was to crush all the peasants grains and forced collectivization which made Ukraine politically, psychologically and socially traumatized. Stalin intentions were to make sure that USSR was the breadbasket since it had very fertile black soil. The important parties are the only people who were fed and also export the grains to fund his huge industrialization projects. Farmers were never paid or fed for their hard work and produce but were still put up to work based on their area of specialization.  Perceptibly, the peasants that rose against the reforms in cultivation were killed and families threatened. As a result, the aggression against this selected class of natives led to many of its citizens to be driven away from their heritage homes to the extent of being expelled out of the villages. Additionally, as retaliation to the injustices, the revolt of the Kulaks instigated the gruesome destruction on churches with looting and was regarded as the Bolsheviks in the local language but translated as opposition to the collectivization. Following this, numerous men of God and priests we arrested and forced to live in exile to avoid loss of life.

Introduction and Research Base

To further explain, between 1928 and 1933 the number of horses in the USSR declined from almost 30 million to less than 15 million of horned cattle from 70 million (including 31million cows) to 38million (including iears slightly more than half the cattle and horses were slaughtered with most of them belonging to the kulaks. Noticeably, it is recorded that the amount of livestock in the USSR region was greatly affected to the extent that the Soviet rural economy did not recover until the mid-nineteen century.

According to research, it was only until a once tourist turned professor who traveled to Ukraine witnessed and published a book in 1957. From where he reviled the troubles that were recorded in Ukraine, it was then that he brought to light the evils of the Soviet Union under the guise of Joseph Stalin. As a blowback to the intransigent basics of Tsarism against the collectivization some of the angered kulaks murdered the officials and even torched their fields burning their crops states . This was all done in an attempt to gain the attention of the authorities that had neglected them.

However, following the civil war between administration and kulaks, there were severe droughts that smack the Ukrainian area. With this in mind, over the years of 1930, 1931 and 1932 followed droughts that were chaotic to the agricultural sector. This in return, led to the deaths of many people owing to the fact that lack of basic amenities in life was not available. Deliberately, the government causes ways to aggravating the troubles of famine by destroying the farmlands this was motivated by the Nazis loyal to the Soviet regime. Throughout the period, Stalin frequently altered efforts from the anti-socialist government to assist in the troubles of the Ukraine. Additionally Stalin had goons that have the powers to operate as they pleased leading to injustices that caused the making of acute shortage of water reservoirs.  

Despite the fact that documentation shows that the typhoid epidemic was naturally caused due to a waterborne virus in the drainage. Observably, the diseases were mainly experienced around the Makeyevka area which was frequented by the pandemic of typhus fever.

Manifestly, during the drought period, the water that was limitedly distributed to the peasant to the concentration camps and other areas where most of the affected went to seek refuge was contaminated. This in return, led to typhoid pandemic that devastate Ukraine. According to Dr. Hans Blumenfeld, he states in his works there is no doubt that the famine claimed many victims noticeably I have no clear number on which to estimate their exact number, however, probably most deaths in 1933 were due to epidemics of typhus, typhoid fever, and dysentery.’ These deaths over the period are estimated to around 60 percent of the Ukrainian population which comprises of 25 million by late 1932

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An in-depth assessment revealed that the last cause that led to the food crisis suffered under the Ukrainian populace was the economic crash. Consequently, the famine led to the unavoidable economic disorder and reorganization of the government. Evidently, the fall of social relation and economic condition was not anticipated. Moreover, the lack of improvising and experience in from preparation in familiar situations left the masses poorer.

The Ukrainian economic collapse was vital to the United Soviet regime who opposed the Kulaks and wanted to take over the state. To highlight this, following the deaths of millions of Kulaks the regime started exploiting the catastrophe by reorganization and modernizations of the cultivation with a socialist basis. Nonetheless, the Soviet Union powers that benefited from this famine were responsible for the deaths and the gruesome leadership of Joseph Stalin remains answerable. Moreover, it was reported that the dictator suppressed the real reports of the holodomor massacre and even after the famine ended the populace did not get to grieve and recover from the horrors they face. This was as a result of the World War 2 that started shortly after.

Conclusion:

In summary, the events leading to the famine was cleverly steered by the Socialist leader to end up at an economic crash that they will exploit. From my point of view, Joseph Stalin instigated the genocide in Ukraine by inaction the above series of tragic events that led to the massacre of both agricultural and livestock and eventual deaths of the populaces in millions. However, the famine actually proceeded for several more years with extra destruction on the social and political lives. Perceptibly, we can say that that the Ukrainian famine was a genocide that was instigated by Stalin and the western force.

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