The Holodomor: Did Russia miss a few in the 1930s,so they're going back for them now?

[Little-Acorn]

Ukraine Famine | United Human Rights Council

Ukraine Famine

The Ukrainian Famine was dreadful famine premeditated by the Soviet Union, headed by Joseph Stalin during 1932-1933, as a means to undermine the nationalistic pride of the Ukrainian people. It served to control and further oppress the Ukrainian people by denying them the basic vital essentials they needed to survive. The Ukrainian Famine is also known as Holodomor, meaning “death by hunger.”

The Communist Regime sought to eliminate any threat from Ukrainian nationalists, whom they feared had the potential to form a rebellion and to seek independence from the Soviet Union. More than 5,000 Ukrainian intellectuals were arrested and later were either murdered or deported to prison camps in Siberia. These individuals were falsely accused of plotting an armed rebellion; however it was very clear that Stalin’s intentions were to eliminate the leaders of Ukrainian society, to leave the masses without any guidance or direction.

Stalin regarded the self-sufficient farms of the Ukraine peasants, as a threat to his ideals. He did not want the Ukrainian peasants to prosper freely from the wealth accumulated from independent farm holdings. The wealthier farmers were termed as “kulaks”, and became the primary target of “dekulukization,” an effort to eliminate independent farm-holdings, and create collective farm units. The Communists attempted to gain the support of the poorer class of peasants, by turning them against the kulak class of farmers. A false image of the Kulak class portrayed them as a danger to society. Contrary to the expected outcome of the Communists’ plan, the poor farmers sided with the kulaks, instead of siding with the Soviet authorities. As a result many of them became new targets of dekulakization. Many other poor farmers unwillingly joined collective farms. Those who attempted to aid a “kulak” were punished under the law.

The Soviet police confiscated the Ukrainian farmers of their homes, livestock, wheat crops, and valuable possessions. They imposed heavy grain taxes, deliberately leaving families to starve. Those who resisted giving up their homes and crops, were violently shot to death or deported to regions in Siberia. Some families and individuals chose to burn their homes to the ground and kill their livestock, instead of handing it over to Soviet authorities. Families, who tried to hide grain resources, in order to sustain a source of food, were killed. This campaign of terror was organized to instill fear within the people, and force them to relinquish all that they had. The ultimate goal was to have these people embrace Soviet-ism and abandon all nationalistic pride.

It was estimated that about 25,000 Ukrainians were dying every day during the Famine. Desperation and extreme hunger even lead to cases of cannibalism and consequentially thousands were arrested for this act.


It gets worse. See the above URL for a full description of the Holodomor.

 

[Edgetho]

Yeah, that was when Walter Duranty was the Moscow Bureau Chief for the New York Slimes.

He knew about it but he refused to report on it. Instead sending glowing reports to the Slimes for print so the sheeple would read them and thing, "How wonderful communism is"

Kulaks and Ukrainians were being systematically eliminated in one of the worst cases of genocide in human history and the New Yawk Slimes has nothing to say about it because....

Well, you know.... Because it was for the cause. And nothing can get in the way of the 'cause'

You think the DISGUSTING FILTH in the LSM has changed in the last decade or so?

Not. They've been this way since the 20s. Even before then with Randolph Hearst. He wasn't AS bad but he was still a scumbag. He pretty much invented 'Yellow Journalism'

Which is the only kind that exists in the DISGUSTING FILTH of the LSM today

 

[Little-Acorn]

Our modern Mainstream Liberal Media got its start at that time and place, in the person of one Walter Duranty, then-Moscow Bureau Chief of the New York Times. Duranty sent back glowing reports of the wonderful "progressives" in the Soviet government and the "success" of their plans, while carefully failing to report the millions of people being systematically starved to death by that same government in Ukraine in 1932-1933.

Today, entire "news" bureaus of the mainstream media emulate Duranty.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Duranty ):

Walter Duranty (1884 – October 3, 1957) was a Liverpool-born, Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times (1922–36). Duranty won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a series of stories on the Soviet Union. Duranty has been criticized for his denial of widespread famine, most particularly the Ukraine mass starvation (1932–33). Years later, there were calls to revoke his Pulitzer; even The Times acknowledged his articles constituted "some of the worst reporting to appear in this newspaper."

His reporting and motivations have been hotly debated, leading to calls to revoke his Pulitzer (which was for reporting unrelated to the later famine controversy). Duranty's reporting is faulted for being too uncritical of the Soviet regime, including having presented Soviet propaganda as legitimate reporting.

 

[Katzndogz]

While Stalin did promote a devastating famine on the Ukrainian people it was not to undermine Ukranian nationalism. It was to impose collectivism on the farmers. Stalins was a liberal.