Holodomor: How Stalin’s Collectivization Policy Killed Millions Of Ukrainians (Part I)
by Matija Šerić
March 20, 2023
Introduction:
Read more here: https://www.eurasiareview.com/20032023 ... analysis/(Eurasia Review) The year 1933 went down in history as the year of scarcity around the world and the year of Adolf Hitler. On the streets of American and European cities, many people lost their jobs as a result of the Great Depression of 1929-1933. Citizens waited in lines for hours for the most basic necessities of life: bread, flour, sugar, oil, tea. Hitler and his Nazi movement came to power in Germany on a wave of dissatisfaction with the economic crisis in 1933.
At the same time, while in the spring of 1933 the world public was mesmerized by the economic crisis and poverty in the Western world and the appearance of the unconventional German Chancellor Hitler, something terrible was happening in the “first state of workers and peasants”, the Soviet Union. Paradoxically, the crisis of world capitalism was celebrated on the streets of Moscow, which the Soviet leadership considered a herald of a global socialist revolution. Soviet politicians and media loudly celebrated Soviet achievements in industrialization and collectivization. However, bad economic policies, and especially the policy of collectivization, created a situation far worse in the Soviet Union than in the capitalist world.
The year 1933 – the year of the crisis of capitalism, Hitler and the Holodomor
In the same 1933, famine ravaged the Soviet countryside, and the worst was in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UKRSSR). In numerous Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv, Kiev, Stalino (today’s Donetsk), and others, hundreds of thousands of residents waited in lines every day to get a piece of bread. In the Ukrainian capital Kharkiv (Kiev became the capital only in 1934), misery was omnipresent. People waited in lines for bread for hours and sometimes all day. 40 thousand people did it every day. The difficult situation destroyed humanity, so neither pregnant women nor war invalids had priority in the ranks. People were frantically holding on to their place in line and their ration card because there was no way to survive without it.