Famine and Genocide in the Soviet Ukraine.
Uploaded by bluebird76 on Mar 05, 2007
Every nation and country has its own darkest periods, when different destructive things are happening to its inhabitants. And maybe one of the darkest periods in all Ukrainian history, was a phase between the years 1930 – 1933. Under brutal Soviet rule, the country had experienced a most terrible man-made famine and its extensive consequences. Some people just call it famine or a Great famine, but a memory of murdered innocent people and a reality of Ukrainian law, makes us call it a Famine-genocide of Ukrainian nation. During that period 10 million Ukrainians that made up one quarter of the country’s population, perished. It is really hard to explain why such cruel things happened to so many people, for it is not likely for a normal human being to understand the logic of beasts that were planning and executing their savage plans. Nevertheless, there are a couple of obvious reasons that could cause someone with no humanity, full of hatred and wickedness, to make reality a horror. Among those reasons are Ukrainian history, geographical location, Soviet policy of collectivization, as well as national Identity and mentality of Ukrainians.
Not too many people know the history of Ukraine, or even can recognize it as a country on a world map. None the less, the first Ukrainian state, according to the famous historian Mychailo Hrushevskyi was established in the late ninth century, and it was called Kyivan Rus’ or so-called Vkrayina that is Ukraine in English translation. Later the Byzantine Empire named it Russia, and they kept this name for subsequent centuries. During the10th and 11th centuries the country was the largest and most powerful state in Europe, but unfortunately, weakened by internecine quarrels and Mongol invasions, Kyivan Rus’ split up and was incorporated into other European principalities within the next centuries. However, a great name and ancient history of Kyivan state was written in the chronicles of many European principalities, but a country itself has stopped its existence. For that reason in the late seventeenth century, to rise among other nations, little known principality of Moskovy adopted name of ancient Ukrainian state in its Latin form, Russia. From that time on, Ukrainians lost not just a name, but their eminent history as well. But even being under foreign rule, in the mid-17th century, they managed to create a new Ukrainian state, the Cossack Hetmanate. It was...