Discover the history of the Holodomor, the devastating famine that struck Ukraine in the 1930s. This video examines how Soviet policies led to one of the deadliest famines in human history.

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Two boys with a cache of potatoes they have found during the man-made Holodomor famine in the Ukraine, former Soviet Union, Spring 1934. The food had been hidden by an elderly woman, who was ...

this frantic wireless appeal has been sent by the head of the Orthodox Russian Church, the Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow, to the Archbishops of York and Canterbury. "Fearful famine in Russia.

1929 – Famine in China (Hunan Province), results in 2 million deaths. 1932-1933 – In the Soviet Union (Ukraine), 7 to 8 million people die. 1930-1933 – In the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan), more ...

A 1923 American Relief Administration film, “America’s Gift to Famine Stricken Russia,” tracks the path of food aid to the Soviet Union, where citizens were suffering a third year of severe ...

“All organizers of the Great Famine are dead," he said. Last July, the Ukrainian Security Service released a list of high-ranking Soviet state and Communist Party officials — as well as ...

"This famine was a common tragedy for the Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakh and other Soviet peoples, as well as the largest humanitarian disaster in the country," the Russian embassy said.

Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population that results in malnutrition and death by starvation and disease. To assess a ...