Like Putin with the war, Stalin forbade talking about famine in Ukraine, dictated by himself to comply with the “collectivization” of agriculture. The famine did not exist either in the ...
Some historians claim that Stalin’s moves were done to quash a Ukrainian independence movement and were specifically targeted at ethnic Ukrainians. As such, some scholars call the famine a genocide.
"To make visible that there may be perpetrators, it helps to link a famine history to something recognizable. When Putin attacked Ukrainian grain silos in 2022, the comparison to Stalin was also ...
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky remembered the victims of the 1932-1933 famine, or Holodomor (death by starvation in Ukrainian) when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the seizure of all ...
The Crimean peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014, is at the centre of the worst East-West standoff since the Cold War. Read more at straitstimes.com.
‘Mr. Jones’, a 2019 period film directed by Agnieszka Holland about a journalist reporting on Holodomor – the Stalin-made famine in 1930s Ukraine – is proving to be more relevant than ever as it ...