Every evening around 1932 carriers dragged carts full of corpses to mass graves for incineration of corpses of Ukrainians starved to death by starvation caused by the Holodomor. Ukraine was the site of the Soviet Holodomor (Ukrainian: голодомор), a famine-induced massacre that broke out in the territory of the Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1932-1933, when the Soviets killed thousands of Ukrainians in the Holodomor (Ukrainian: голодомор). It was one of the worst national massacres in the modern history of Ukraine. The death toll ranged from about 2.5 to 7.5 million people. Joseph Stalin deliberately starved Soviet Ukraine. It marked the beginning of an era of genocide in Europe, with the Soviet army's ruthless requisitioning and looting of all the wheat.
The Soviet Bolsheviks took control of Ukraine in 1919. In the years that followed, power passed from Lenin to Stalin's dictatorship. Even more than in Soviet Russia, where communal cultivation was traditional, peasants in Soviet Ukraine lost their farmland. From 1918 to 1921, just after the Bolshevik Revolution, the Soviet Bolsheviks requisitioned food from the peasantry while fighting a civil war. The Soviets were alarmed by the deportation of Ukrainian peasants to concentration camps after the mid-1920s.
The Ukrainian peasants had few guns and poor organization. The Soviet state had a near monopoly on firepower and logistics. The Ukrainian peasants were monitored by the powerful Organization of State Police Units (OGPU), which recorded nearly one million acts of Ukrainian resistance in 1930. of the massive peasant uprisings that broke out in the Soviet Union in March 1930, nearly half occurred in Soviet Ukraine. in the first four months of 1930, about 113,637 self-employed farmers kulaks (Kulak) were deported from Soviet Ukraine. The huts of some 30,000 Ukrainian farmers were emptied one after another. Thousands of freezing wagons full of terrified, disease-ridden Ukrainians were deported to Northern Europe-Russia, the Urals, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Ukrainian peasants were plunged into gunfire and cries of terror, frostbite and humiliation on the trains, and the agony and resignation of the slave laborers.
In 1931, more than half of the harvest was taken out of Soviet Ukraine. Many collective farms were turned over seed grain to meet requisitioning goals. Stalin ordered the collective farms to hand over their seed grain on December 5, 1931. Many Ukrainian peasants really lost everything; by the end of 1931 many were already starving. The starvation was the result of sabotage, and local Communist Party activists became saboteurs and traitorous party officials; in the closing weeks of 1932, Stalin starved to death millions of Ukrainians in Soviet Ukraine. Ukrainians faced starvation, families were divided, parents against their children and children against each other. Families killed the weakest, their children, and used their flesh for food. Parents killed and ate their children, who later starved to death. One mother cooked her son for herself and her daughter, the National Police Organization (OGPU) documented.
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