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Naumenko criticizes Tauger's view of the efficacy of collective farms arguing Tauger's view goes against the consensus, [43] she also states that the tenfold difference in death toll between the 1932-1933 Soviet famine and the Russian famine of 1891–1892 can only be explained by government policies, [43] and that the infestations of pests and ...
The Holodomor, [a] also known as the Ukrainian Famine, [8] [9] [b] was a mass famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians.The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.
In 1932–1933, a man-made famine, [a] known as the Holodomor, killed 3.3–5 million people in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (as part of the Soviet Union), [5] [6] [7] included in a total of 5.5–8.7 million killed by the broader Soviet famine of 1930–1933.
Although famine, allegedly caused by collectivization, raged in many parts of the Soviet Union in 1932, special and particularly lethal policies, according to Yale historian Timothy Snyder in his book Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), were adopted in and largely limited to Ukraine at the end of 1932 and 1933. [37]
A notorious Soviet decree known as "Five Stalks of Grain," issued in 1932, designated taking food from a farm as theft of “socialist property.” Two thousand Ukrainians would be executed for ...
Estimates of Soviet deaths attributable to the 1932–1933 famine vary wildly, but are typically given in the range of millions. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Vallin et al. estimated that the disasters of the decade culminated in a dramatic fall in fertility and a rise in mortality.
The following lists events that happened during 1932 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents General ... Soviet famine of 1932–33; January
The Holodomor famine takes place in Ukraine. Joseph Stalin added Article 121 to the entire Soviet Union criminal code, which made male homosexuality a crime punishable by up to five years in prison with hard labor. The law remained intact until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and was repealed in 1993. [1]