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@@kevintewey1157 Right now the Russian Federation is starving disabled and poor people denying them medical equipment and killing them So, put Your money where your mouth is
I am thankful as a Kazakh to see that even for a tiny moment our tragedy was mentioned in English language media. Hope to see more detailed videos on the Kazakh famine.
Yes, I'd love to see a episode on the Kazakh famine. It really is one of the worst things that can happen to a population. Seeing your children starve to death in your arms and not being able to do anything to help them is the worst thing imaginable. And it is a story that is never forgotten or forgiven. It is quietly passed down the generations and used as a cautionary tale against the oppressors.
They made an English language film called Bitter Harvest, but it ended up being really badly made, which is honestly really sad because it’s a story that deserves to be told and told well. ❤️❤️
Ironically, Russia's aggression towards the Ukrainian people has never resultat in Ukrainians trusting the Russian state. The more damage and suffering Russia inflicts on Ukraine, the more resistance they create. It's a shame that obvious historic facts are denied to this day. I really hope Ukrainians will be able to live their lives in peace again, without any outside aggression.
And now there is a war similar what happened to my contry, Finland, in the Winter war. It's a repeat of history and i dont want it repeating because we lost, but atleast we killed two times as many of them than them us.
The perspective of the Russian leader on Ukraine has been all the same; Ukraine has no sovereignty, it belongs to us, our country. Although Russians and Ukraine people have many similarities in common and both share the same origins of their countries, nowadays it's a different country. Russia should accept this fact, but sadly it seems that they don't care about the independence of Ukraine and totally ignores the sovereignty. That's why Holodomor happened, and now the invasion by Putin happened, too.
As a Ukrainian, I am so thankful that Ukraine's history is being shared, and taught about in English-speaking media. I knew a lot of people from the west who didn't even know what the Holodomor was, so Thank you for sharing it.
Hey, Do you have a documentary of the Russian famine in 1921-22 which killed 5 million Russians and is regarded as one of the worst famines in history?
@@eliasziad7864 In the Holodomor... genius boy... the soviets also shot and killed the ukrainians who were trying to escape. That's a problem In fact they were not even aloud to mourn their loved ones.
By the way, in Kazakhstan we have had similar story but we call it “Asharsilik” similar to Holodomor. Dear Ukraine 🇺🇦 people Kazakh people with you, and we pray for your peace and sovereignty. We will never forget what our people been through!
В Татарстане кстати, как и во всём Поволжье тоже был такой голод, в 30-е, даже пословица осталась "голодающее Поволжье" про людей, которые быстро и много едят. In Tatarstan as well as in whole Volga river valley by the way there was also a great famine at the same time(30's) that had it's imprint on generations to come. There's even a phrase "Голодающее Поволжье" or roughly "Starving Volga" refering to people who eat very quickly. A good amount of my relatives died back then either from famine or from "raskulachivanie" and ethnic cleansing
Thank you for your kind words. I was planning to go to Kazakhstan before the pandemic, but never got around to it. I hear it's beautiful ❤️ Слава Україно, друже
My grandmother has a photo of the family, and there are signs "+" and "-" on it, once upon a time, my mother asked my grandmother what kind of photo it was, but she didn't say. Years later, my grandmother told me that the "-" sign meant who didn't survive the Holodomor, and the "+" sign meant that they survived. She also said that earlier, when there was the Soviet Union, she was afraid to talk about it, so she didn't tell my mother about it.
I'm Ukrainian and I'm so thankful for what you did. A lot of historians in America are still learning this fearful page of Ukrainian history. If you will do something about history and Ukraine again, it would be interesting if you contacted historians such as Timothy Snyder and Yaroslav Hrytsak. As a person who researches cinema and makes content about it, I recommend Agnieszka Holland's film "Mr Jones" (2019).
The decapitation of leadership and subjugation and exploitation of a people is exactly what the US did to African Americans. They instigated events that led to the assassination of black leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr while instituting a system of brutality and exploitation of the African American people that lasts till today If the African American people were armed by western nations with anti aircraft missiles, anti tank weapons, we might have a chance at winning our liberty and freedom
@@AlexanderSavchenko91 по-перше, ви голодомор заперечуєте у себе там, тому це якийсь дисонанс. По-друге, мені взагалі байдуже, що у вас там було, якщо чесно.
My grandmother survived three forced collectivizations and the Holodomor. She witnessed people dying on the road, saw little children swollen from hunger, heard stories of cannibalism, ate leaves and frozen rotten potatoes found somewhere in the garden. All the harvest and food supplies were forcibly taken and spoiled, but the main thing was not to let people eat. She mentioned children from Kherson, whose parents died from starvation, brought to her village, so that the people who had at least a cow, adopt them... 😢 In our family, we never wasted food; if a piece of bread fell on the floor, we picked it up, kissed it, and asked for forgiveness. This memory stays with all of us forever
This is the first time I see this topic to be covered on such a big channel. And as a Ukrainian, I am really grateful to you for that. It's a common wound for many Ukrainian families. This video even made me cry a little bit. Thank you, Vox team
@@vdown_fall8582 This video forgot to mention that people under communism always become unproductive (innovation stifles without the possibility of a reward) because they are not going to benefit from surplus or "doing better than average". This caused farmers to fail to meet their quotas and thus why the law was put in place to then "take everything" since "meeting the quota" "for the good of the country" was more important than the individual farmers' families who needed some left over grain to eat and to trade to buy other essentials. some farmers were actually *self-sabotaging* because they didn't believe it was fair they had to give EVERYTHING up no matter how plentiful their harvest was. Human nature is important when considering theorized unnatural ideologies. Theories don't always pan out according to how humans will naturally behave. another part they totally left out was how millions of the "kulaks" who died were GERMANS in GERMAN colonies. Put those dots on the map over the villages and old maps and you will see they are *mostly* GERMAN people. (looks up "germans from russian empire" to find old maps of their parishes.) This is a huge reason why Hitler later invaded Russia... because German colonies founded in the early 1700s and 1850s and later, were all across the soviet union. Hitler wanted to claim the land that his German people lived on and to FREE THEM FROM COMMUNISM.
There were two different famines in Russia: 1921-1922 and 1930-1933. This is talking about the later. The worldwide Great Depression was from 1929-1933. Herbert Hoover offered aid to Russia, which was initially rejected, and finally accepted by Lenin, in the 1st famine. This most likely saved millions of Russian lives.
The more I have been learning about Ukraine history the more I understand the amazing will, resilience and determination of its people to be free. They have been constantly brutalized by Russia and let down by Europe and the West.
My family lived through the Blight in Ireland, another engineered famine. I grew up hearing stories about it from my great-grandmother. It's such an awful way of controlling a populace, and it's awful knowing that it's happened so much and in so many places.
❤️YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEAR DEATH IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, AND TRUST IN HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, BECAUSE HE ATONED FOR YOU FOR ALL YOUR INSULTS, THAT YOU WOULD OBTAIN PEACE WITH ALMIGHTY GOD, AND GO TO HEAVEN BY HIS GRACE!🎉
Every Ukrianian family has a Holodomor survival story from their grandparents/great-grandparents. Entire villages, cities, districts had been wiped out, mostly in Eastern Ukraine. This is the number 1 reason there are so many Russian-speaking people in the East of Ukraine, because the areas were repopulated with other ethnicities from the Soviet Union.
@@Offwekid Sadly, no. Every 7th person in Ukraine has died during WW2. And around 90% of the jews were exterminated. Everyone has a history, but for many it is impossible to find.
My great-grandfather’s family had a small farm near Kyiv. In 1929, they heard about other farmers being executed or sent to Siberia and so they all abandoned the farm and fled to Kyiv by foot, attempting to save their lives. My 16-year old great-grandfather got a job at a local cab service and lived in a stable. That’s how my family moved to Kyiv. My mother’s side of the family was less lucky though. They were village peasants unaffected by the collectivization so they stayed in the village. Most of the family did not survive the Holodomor. Thank you for making this video and telling the truth about the long and horrifying history of Russian imperialism! Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
I know ur not having good time with the Russians. But it was *Stalin's* imperialism. Who wasn't a Russian by the way. And sent many Russians to to Gulags.
@@DESIBOY-fe7nm Holodomor was not the first or last time someone tried to destroy Ukraine from Moscow. Also, the USSR continued the Russian imperial project. Other nations had to assimilate and their cultures and languages were marginalized. It’s a cautionary tale to think the Soviets were not imperialistic in their policies toward the non-Russian cultures.
Many of dietary and culinary habits comes from that starvation period: eating a lot of high calorie food, not wasting even a bit of food that left on the plate, bread became basically a must on the table and practice of preparing a lot of bottled, conserved food in case of something.
My father is originally from Ukraine. He always tells me when I eat, "Finish everything. Don't leave food for the enemy." Of course, I found it amusing in the past. Who is this "enemy" he talks about? I had always wondered why he said that, until now.
Famines actually turn our genes on and off, and these markers on are passed down two generations. There was an epigenetics study of the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45, and people who experienced it in the womb died younger and had more health issues.
As a Ukrainian, I am grateful to you and your great support for Ukraine. To this day, we have the moral rule to not take out bread to trash because you never know if the future will or will not bring you the moment when you won't have even a crumb of it.
This is where it's from? My parents are from Ukraine and they taught me to never ever throw food, expecialy bread. Even now, the bread that goes stale, they give it to the neighboorhood dogs but don't throw it away. And we should always also eat everything from the plate, so when I first ate with my friends out when I was little and saw how much food they would live on the plate I was shocked to my core, never saw it home.
Thank you for covering this terrifying episode in the history of my country. My grandparents live in rural area, they parents experienced that horror. There indeed were the prohibition to move to cities from the village and that prohibition continued up to 70s. Basically people were slaves, they didn't have passports or any rights, they couldn't change anything.
In the Saint States federation of North America people also have no passports, this is legit for 85%+ of the pupulation. So they were slaves? Cry louder, roll on the ground and cosplay an "always the victim" more. A hint: this won't allow you to build "a second Israel".
@@worldoftancraft The problem was not in passport absence but in absensce of basic human rights that other USSR citizens had. For example freedom of movement or freedom to choose a job, without passport one couldn't move to other village, couldn't move to a city and could find any other job except of working on local collective farm. So lack of those rights I call slavery.
@@ohyoyshozebulo Lack of those rights or lack of the activity and audacity to do anything with the self? How was the population of cities increasing? With the help of «magic»? Or «somehow» Populus of rular areas was moving in towns?
@@worldoftancraft I am talking about a particular case of the lack of rights of my grandparents and other villagers. And you don't have any right to doubt they words you even don't know them. What is problem in saying "thank you" for making video about the history that happened with my relatives? Why you so aggressive about commenting the video?
@@ohyoyshozebulo because calling a multiethnic tragedy “a conscious act of Murdering poor Ukrainians just for fun because atrocious Rick.Tator Stalin did order” does not represent the actual truth nor helps anyone. Oh, right. It helps the poor Ukrainian nationalists to build Their Own National Myth. Like we didn't see enough of things of this kind. P.s. what did I doubt? That your relatives are A PART OF THE SOCIETY, thus, they are INFLUENCEABLE to an AGENDA? See, it's a worldwide thing. Isolate yourself from the society and its gifts to be truly independent.
As a Bengali, I would request you to please make a similar video on the Britain-created Bengal Famine of 1943 that killed at least 3 million people. My grandmother who was kid then recounts the horrors of the time. She lost her mother to the famine.
British Raj actions played a huge roll in the famine death toll. But can we really say it was only British created ? And is it comparable situation to Holodomor ?
Yes, Winston Churchill was responsible for it. But the Western media would avoid showing him in a bad light, he is one of the heros of WWII. I mentioned the same in a comment but now I see it was probably deleted. I don't know why.
My relatives were repressed because they owned a large garden and a silkworm on the shores of the Sea of Azov. They pioneered silkworm technology in the region and developed it further. My great-grandmother and her children survived the famine by fishing and collecting plants. But her husband was sent to a labour camp for uranium mining, where he lost his health and died shortly after returning. Another great-grandfather of mine was sentenced to 20 years and exiled to Siberia (eastern Russia) for supporting the Ukrainian national identity. While in the camp, he went on strike and raised the convicts against the bosses. For this, he received another ten years in prison. After Stalin's death, he was rehabilitated and returned to Kyiv. He would not be surprised now because of the war. He then already understood everything about the Russian government. Since then, the methods have not changed. Thank you for sharing this theme with a foreign audience.
You are such a liar. Your great-grandfather did not serve 20 years in the Gulag, as most sentences were 5 years, and anything above 10 was rare. Also, your greedy kulak family deserved it and worse.
My papa lived through the famine aswell, but in Lviv Region, he survived off berries in the forest, once the war started the soviet government came to his village and started rounding up the men to be sent to siberia, his brothers got sent off but he hid in the forest for 3 years surviving off the same berries before they found him. Russia has never been our friend
I'm glad this is getting more attention.The Holocaust understandably and deservedly gets a ton of attention, but the slaughter which took place during Holodomor wasn't far off and sadly most non-Ukrainians have no idea what it is at least in the US. As a Ukrainian American I can definitively say the impact it had on our culture was tremendous. Up until they passed away my grandparents ALWAYS insisted I eat more and would get upset if I didn't and not just in the way "normal" grandparents do, not to mention the amount of preserved food they kept hidden.
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
@@ewadfe3705 why do I have to talk about other countries if my country was in slavery for all the existence of the soviet union? stalin wanted fully conquer Ukraine, as all the rulers of russia did and doing now. why should we be silent about all of it?
This is scary...here in Croatia in school we are learning about this and when teacher was explaining what Ukrainians where going through during Holodomor,our teacher started crying soo loud that she couldn't stop,we were so shocked by these stories...😭🇭🇷❤🇺🇦
@@brmbkl well, all countries have skeletons in their closet. Or mass graves. So yep, we need to bring up these unpleasant parts of our histories, so no one dare repeat them again.
@@ianhomerpura8937 Theres a time and place. You are hijacking this discussion for your own interest, diminishing the trauma of others to attract sympathy for your case. It’s rude beyond belief, so i dont expect you to understanding what im saying.
When I started learning history in Ukrainian school we still had programmes largely influenced by the Russian view of the world the was no talk of Holodomor or Stalin and Hitler dividing Poland. They changed it during my studies. We went from not knowing anything about Holodomor to slowly talking about it, and even building a museum to collect and display the evidence.
My grandparents survived Holodomor. They told me the most horrific stories how people were laying dead on the streets, people eating dogs or or even their dead parents/children.
Guess where the Russians and Soviets learned that tactic to starve out indigenous peoples? The British as they did the same thing to Ireland during the 19th century as a result of allowing British absentee landlords to purchase their land, the Popery Laws which unfairly targeted the Irish people, and forcing native Irish to compete for limited land and grow only one crop that is not even native to Eurasia, the potato. When potato blight hit Ireland in the mid 1840s, their potato crops were wiped out, and the infamous "Potato Famine" occurred, resulting in Ireland losing over 25% of its population to out migration and deaths.
I believe the same thing happened to Kazakhstan, the Soviet’s divided Kazakhs almost parallel to Ukraine confiscating cattle from the « bai », the richer Kazakhs. They depended on Kazakh people to rat eachother out. Meanwhile up to 60% of the Kazakh ethnicity was wiped out and they would be a minority in their own country until 1991. If villages did not meet grain quotes they would be blacklisted unable to trade with neighboring villages. Sadly western scholars refuse to admit that this was a genocide though it is exactly like Ukraine. Kazakh scholars call this the goloshchenkin genocide.
@@Axatttt Kazakhstan itself don't recognize it officialy as genocide. That's main problem. We are Ukrainians always say that in Kazakhstan also was genocide. So, if Kazakhstan will recognize it as genocide, we will do the same accordingly.
More than half of my family didn't survive Holodomor. My grandpa was a baby when this happened. 😭 I keep thinking that there wouldn't be me if his grandpa didn't somehow save him bu feeding seeds
I'm from Kazakhstan, my grand grand mother (mother side) was from a family of 4. She lost 2 sisters during the starvation and her brother sometimes later during the WW2.
Ukraine is still the bread basket of Europe. We need to be planting victory gardens just like in WWII. Almost nothing is being planted in Ukraine this spring. Not one EU government has talked about conservation or reducing consumption. Next winter could be very painful.
Wait did they just say 1/3 of people in Kazakhstan died in this time period? holy moly, why dont we hear that more often? why isnt there a name given to that? Not downplaying or dismissing holomodor AT ALL. but surprised I havent even heard of Kazakhstan losing 1/3 of population in few years
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
Officials say the number of 1/3 of the population but most people and historians tell about the 1.5-2/3 of population, so that they became the minor nation
My friend, the name given to the Kazakh famine of 1931-33 is "Asharshylyk". My grandma being a teenager lost her parents and 7 out of 8 siblings to it and had an incredible story of saving her little sister, but having to turn her into orphanage. She was looking for her sister all her life, but never found her... You are right, the world should be hearing more often about it.
This is partly why, after independence, Nazarbayev moved to consolidate Kazakh rule over the Russian-settled north by building Astana (now Nur-Sultan) at the center of the country.
My family wasn't affected by Holodomor, but my great-grandfather was killed during the purges. It frustrates and saddens me to see how many seemingly intelligent, well-meaning, educated people deny that Stalin was a brutal dictator. Thank you for uploading this and explaining it to succinctly.
Stalin killed more people than Hitler. There are numerous statues of Stalin in the entire Russia. What would we think if there would had been statues of Hitler in today's Germany?
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
In this war, Most Indians are on Russian side. (Long story) But this war made a saperate fan base of Ukrainian fighters India. Your President Zelensky, is named as "Bengal Tiger" here. I know this is random.
Thank you for telling this story. My gradparents came from the Kiev countryside in 1915 as teenagers to NYC then PA. They never spoke English and no one in my family ever told this story. After the fall of the Iron Curtain we finally heard from relatives there. They sent a group picture which showed how desperately poor they were.
My grandmother told me a lot of horrible stories about Holodomor. My family was able to survive through these times only because my great-grandmother worked in collective farm and hid under clothes ears of wheat and other minor food supplies. For such actions people were killed in those days It's so sad to hear about Russia as our brotherhood nation after all this. And even more sad that these horrors are only a part of perennial red-terror on our lands. I hope that modern people will remember and investigate these horrors. Thank you for this video
Russia wasn't responsible for any of that. Russians and Kazakhs and other Soviet peoples were also victims of these tragedies. It wasn't unique to Ukraine.
@@mishaHrytsak How was Russia responsible for that? It was the policies of a Georgian called Stalin and the Russian people and the Kazakhs also suffered from the famine.
@@moncliffeekuban9187And Trofim Lysenko was an ethnic Ukrainian from Ukraine. He’s the pseudo scientist behind the famines. Does it mean all Ukrainians and Georgians are bad? Of course not, the point is, when Russian people are consistently demonized for things their people didn’t even do….it’s no wonder the policy around this area fails.
I once in my life had no money to buy a single bread. Had to eat salt and sugar to aliviate the hunger. It's painful, not just the sensation of hunger but the feeling of loneliness, you feel abendoned by everyone apart from your family. But I can't even grasp the amount of despair and fear those people felt when their food was confiscated. The amount of suffering is inconceivable. It's sad that nowadays people don't learn about this kind of atrocitie. I studied the soviet union in depth on school, but there simply was no mentioning that a whole generation starved to death and were assassinated just because a maniac wished to erase their nation. A feel shame for my educating system.
The same happened in Kazakhstan, that is why Kazakh and Ukrainian people treat each other well, we suffered from genocide and it was never admitted by Russian side
Марина Ливнева, почему вы записываете всесоюзный голод, случившийся в СССР дважды (1930-1933 и 1946-1947) лишь на российскую сторону? Что, в Ком. партии коммунистами были только русские? И только русские осуществляли раскулачивание, коллективизацию и прочие ужасы военного коммунизма?
Thank you for bringing these stories into light! I'm a Ukrainian but my grand-grandmothers lived in Ukraine and Kazakhstan at that period. The world must know the truth about how the soviet union treated nations that weren't russian. It is important to understand that even right now russian "federation" is largely made of nations and territories where people's money, resources and future is stolen by moscow
@@gook5219china russia simp you should go to wagner, theyre still recruiting. or youre only here to say that kazakhstan is not important when clearly you’re the one who isnt? their lives matter. meanwhile yours? debatable. putler will make good use of you soon
I’m pleasantly surprised to not see many tankies trying to deny or justify this. I hope people will finally start to see how cruel the USSR was. It truly is surprising that people still try to defend these actions when there is so much proof. Reminds me of the stupidity of denying the Shoah.
I dont think the tankies have found the video yet, the twitter tankie community regularly celebrates this and claim the kulaks had it coming. Its actually kinda terrifying how many of them there are on twitter.
@@loubertloubert the tankies are the lowest crab in the crab bucket society, they have no ambition and no wishes, and will pull down everyone else that wants to better themselves so they can suffer as them
Great synopsis. This is by far one of the most underreported or just outright denied genocides in modern history. The fact Russians are being subject to the same disinformation plays into how these kinds of things are outright denied today. Keep up the good work.
It was not genocide, as many people across the whole of the Soviet Union starved to death. Most fertile lands were in Ukraine & southern Russia, hence had the highest death rates. Other notable areas included Kazakhstan and ukbekistan
😂😂😂 this was not genocide If it was then fyi Winston Churchill killed more than 4 millions of Indian during 1942-43 famine (that is the official number which many believe to be up to 10-12 millions)
@@prathamsaxena9503 Wow. Guess what. Targeted policies which directly or indirectly lead to the deaths of millions of a specific group of people? Yes its a genocide. So was the Indian starvation.
@@sillywilly2342 And what happened after all those people died? They were resettled by ethnic Russians. I'm not rocket surgeon, but that does sound incredibly familiar to a certain mustachioed German man's policy for creating breathing room. Not saying the Ruskies have that mentality. But it was pretty obvious then and more obvious now that it was a targeted effort to decimated or at least subjugate the rural Ukrainian populations by literally making them starve to death.
@@joshuawilliams8841 again, Stalin did this all across the Soviet Union. It was not JUST towards Ukrainians. Crimean Tatars, Cossacks, Chechens, Latvians, Lithuanians we’re all targeted and forcibly relocated. And in term of relocated people, of course it would be Russians who relocated these areas, because they were by far the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union. Also worth noting, it was not just Russians that relocated these lands (some forcibly btw), but belarussians, Kazakhs etc. If you look at it only through the lense of Ukraine, which with video sneakily does, I can see why people say genocide. But when you look at the broader Soviet Union as a whole, you realise all ethnicities suffered unfortunately, and the genocide argument becomes a very week one to make
My family is german russians, they lived as germans in russia for generations. But during and after WW2, germans had it very hard in russia (even though they obviously had nothing to do with german politics). They were deported in the most unhabitable places of russia, labor camps, etc. My grandma told me that they had to work on fields all day, then government officials would seize almost all their harvest. They would hide wheat grains at home, and my great grandfather build a hidden oven into the walls of their hut, so they could bake bread at night.
And they deported other "undependable" minorities as well: Balkars, Karachays, Chechens, Ingushetians, Dagestanis, Kalmyks, Crimean Tatars, Meskhetian Turks etc... Often they shared the same forlorn lands of exile, usually in concentration camps where food and medicine were in short supply. Between 1/4 and 1/3 perished from starvation, cruelty and neglect. The Caucasian nations didn't return to their lands until 1957. The Tatars weren't allowed to return to Crimea until Gorbachev finally reversed Stalin's decree, and none of these groups received any compensation for their pain. Your fellow Germans and the Meskhetian Turks are still homeless for the most part, and the latter are still stateless in countries far from home (the Republic of Georgia has steadfastly refused to recognise them as Georgians).
@Joscha Wexler german russians spoke german and still had their german surnames unlike the so called german americans who completely were Anglonized after WW1. Even today many german russian still speak german and have family ties to german because after USSR fall, alot german russian migrated to Germany or Austria. I live in Germany and i see german russian part of germans but i cant see the same with german americans, they are actually more british or anglo american than german
That's what Russia has done throughout history. Not only during the Soviet era, but also during Tsarist era and the modern era. They did that to the Manchus and Han in northeast Qing China in Haishenwai (Vladivostok). They also did that to Polish and Germans living in Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) after WWII.
@@maxmccullough8548 i've been to USA 4 times. These amish and mennonites who speak german are around 80 to 100 years, their descendants today are Anglonized and have absolute no ties to german or germany. The only ones in USA who speak german are mostly fresh Immigrants, expats or tourists. No American born citizen after the 2nd Generation is able to speak german anymore. I've met several "so called" german americans, but only their grandparents were still able to speak german. North America specially USA was successful in erasing german language heritage. This never happened in South America or Africa ( Namibia and even South Africa ) were people of german heritage untill today still preserve their german Communities and pass the language to their descendants. USA has a german discrimination Problem.
Every Ukrianian family has a Holodomor survival story from their grandparents/great-grandparents. Personally, I grew up on my grandmother's stories about the Holodomor, about how she walked four days to another city to bring some food to her younger brother and sister. Entire villages, cities, districts had been wiped out.
If every Ukrainian family knows about the Holodomor, then let’s tell us who owned the lands of Ukraine during the Holodomor. Or do you not know the history of your own country? At that time, only part of the territories belonged to the Soviet Union. It’s better to ask Poland what kind of massacre of local residents took place there and why the locals chose the path of nationalization as a way to protect themselves from Polish aggression.
The first class I ever had in college was a genocide studies course and it was the first time I ever heard of the Holodomor. It’s terrifying to see how history has forgotten such a tragic and cruel event, and how it’s been omitted from much of education. I’m glad vox is producing these videos and sharing the historical context that shows how Ukraine has been constantly abused
As a Ukrainian I'm very thankful that Vox made this video, the world has to know about this horrible crime and how the soviet government tried to cover this tragedy up. We still remember the hunger and the generational trauma is still alive in the current generations. The world has to know how horrible the regime was and how many times the Soviet regime and now Russia have been trying to destroy Ukraine but will never succeed.
As an Irish person, learning about this hits hard and I can fully empathise with the Ukrainian and Kazakh people and this tragedy that they have survived. Something like this can never be forgotten or forgiven. If you starve a population be prepared for 1000 years of hatred.
I also have Irish Protestant roots from my Dad's side. My paternal ancestors migrated from Poole to Ireland, and then Ireland to Newfoundland's Northwestern Avalon Peninsula during the mid 18th century. Don't forget that 1/5 of Newfoundland and Labrador's population have Irish roots, mostly Irish Protestants and Catholics. While the potato famine didn't effect my family, it still did a lot of damage to my ancestors, including a 1/4 of Ireland's population either perished or forced to go to North America for a better life.
@John Barrett it was the Catholic population who were starved. And it was mostly caused by the heavy taxes that the Catholics had to pay to the Protestant lords.
Kazakhstan suffered from famine too, as was mentioned from 30 to 50% of population died from starvation and Soviet government has never acknowledged it. Moreover, even here in Kazakhstan people do not talk that much about it, since for a long time it was only briefly mentioned in school textbooks, as if it wasn't a big deal. Another thing making the whole situation worse is that Kazakhs seemed to Soviet government as backward people, who are not capable of cultivating crops properly (regarding the nomadic past of the country as a sign of cultural underdevelopment), hence, the famine was partially their fault. Kazakh call it Great Jut (Ұлы жұт), while the word Jut itself is usually applied to a massive loss of livestock. Well, instead it was massive loss of people this time. Interestingly, when we translate it in Russian we use word Holodomor too
Thanks for bringing this up. I can add that because of Holodomor we have cult of Bread. It's a sin to throw bread. If bread is dropped on the flour you have to say sorry and cross it like you do it in the pray. We are tought not to play with bread or food. PS My grand grand parents always had to have canned bread. And if can spoils they replaced it with a new one.
My grandfather’s brother died in Holodomor. In the summer 1933 he stole cherry from a neighbor’s tree. And the neighbor strangled him for this theft. My grandma was born later and survive a hunger after WW2 . It was lean year after the war and to survive they ate birch bark pancakes. that is, they took birch bark and ground it into flour. And baked pancakes.
@@ewadfe3705 Where is your proof? And let's talk about American war crimes. The thing is, many Americans are not shy about talking about bad things that happened in its past, or present for that matter.
Actually I think they do not severely under report. But you can give me real examples. And by real, provide actual data points that can be compared and not just say ""but it was much worse than that"
Never forget that if you have what an Empire wants, they will stop at nothing to get it. Ireland, India, Ukraine, Iraq, Yemen and Palestine. The same pattern repeats. Solidarity with Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes.
The fact you weren't aware is the biggest failure of "the West's" history lessons of the post-WW2 era. it's beyond surreal. Many intellectuals were Screaming about it, most notably Jordan Peterson. I don't care if you like him or not, he often sees far into the future & is worth listening to for that fact alone.
For me as Ukraine 🇺🇦 very important to show this to the world. Thanks Vox. My great grandma told me the story when I was a kid. Her parents had 10 kids and only she and her one brother survived. The police came over and confiscated everything eatable from the house.
Thank you for voicing this tragedy. Ukrainians will never forget it. The world shouldn’t too. And for this to not happen, all of us should act, act beyond expressing concerns - act like your own future depends on it. Because it is.
Yes, like Indian will not forget how Winston Churchill killed millions of people in 1942-43 to win world war BTW you might have never heard of it because, they were Brown and Not white like Ukraine
@@prathamsaxena9503 and many people haven't heard about the genocide of Ukrainians despite them being white, so people should already stop being offended without any reason
Wow my father told me long ago the faminevis why my grandmother stowawayed a boat from the Ukraine to the US. I tried to find information about it long before Google was a thing and I thought he must've made it up. However this story confirms it. Thank you for reporting this information. Спасибо
My grandparents were lucky enough to barely survive. Their stories were almost exactly as this video described it. Unfortunately, these stories are not uncommon.
I first learned about this history when it was briefly spoken in the tv series Chernobyl. Up to this day I still can't believe that a person could perpetuate such misery.
Thank you so much for this. I don’t know why there is this historical hatred and abuse toward Ukraine by Russian dictators,but it needs to be called out for what it is - genocide. While “experts” are debating whether the current situation in Ukraine is “genocide”, thousands of lives are lost and millions are homeless and refugees. The genocidal nature of this invasion is self evident, especially if you consider the historical facts. The Ukrainian people deserve peace once and for all, and the world needs to support them and acknowledge the truth.
@Max_CSD Loradon But he was the absolute leader of the USSR at the time when that famine happened. Was caused when a dictator (Stalin) wanted both to replace Ukraine's small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority. so stop your nonsense alibi.
Another tragic topic foreigners may have no idea about is "Executed Renaissance" Consider making video on it too. Same historical period as Holodomor. Briefly, it was USSR wiping out Ukrainian artists and intellectuals. Shooting two artists at once with a single bullet was one of the methods as they saved the ammunition (for other victims).
This is my first time seeing this covered on such a large platform. As a descendent of surviors of the holodomor + the labor camps that followed, it's great to see this history taught, as there seems to be a lack of presence in large history resources, and cetainly not in as much detail as other events. So thank you, truly
My great-grandfather was arrested for being "a kulak". We don't know what happened to him. Some say he was executed right near his village, others say he was sent to build The White Sea-Baltic Canal. Our family also tried to hide some grains in their garden, like the people from the video, but police have noticed a fresh looking hole in the ground and dig up everything. My great-grandmother said the policeman was standing on his knees and picking up each single grain that fell down on the floor. She buried her 2 children who died from starvation near her home. Her third child, my grandma, survived, because she was a toddler, and the family managed to get her out of the village. Some acquaintances from Kharkiv looked after her.
My great grandfather was also arrested as kulak and he was russian 🤷 it was the common problem of the whole USSR, not something created specifically against Ukrainians 🤷
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
Try to contact the archive of the region where your great-grandfather lived, they may have a copy of your great-grandfather's criminal case. To do this, you do not even need to go anywhere, just send a request by e-mail to the archive and if the case is found, you can receive a scanned copy of this case by mail.
Literally one of the reasons for the Ukrainian famine was kulaks hiding their grain and it rotting or even burning it. Congratulations, your family contributed to the general suffering of the ukrainian people 👍
It is so important as humans to not only learn your history but histories of different cultures. I am not Ukrainian or Russian but the compassion I have for humans is beyond what country we are from. I am from a “race” that has and still struggles and I realize how much through life we all have especially our ancestors.
Guys, thank you for this amazing work! For your information the same thing happened in Kazakhstan. But even in bigger scales. It would have been good, if you could make whole series about famine policy in Soviet Union.
As someone from Kazakhstan I simply don’t understand the people that support Stalin or communism in general. My great grandparents were exiled by Stalin to Siberia and stripped of possessions.
@@adricpia5791 because a Post Soviet person supporting Stalin is like a chicken supporting kfc. They’re essentially supporting the person and his policies which killed 20 million people
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
Glad to know that such a tragedy has finally been covered by such a big platform. This has often gone hidden in the long history of the Soviet Union and honestly surprising how nobody has talked about it yet, so thank you Vox.
My grandma lived through it. She witnessed a neighbor going mad from hunger and devastation and once one of her 4 kids died, she had to feed the deceased kid to the rest of surviving children, but she never told them where she got the meat from. Couple of months later she hanged herself coz she could not take it anymore. 3 kids survived. Their last name was Shvets. But how many didn’t make it! Thank you for spotlighting the topic ❤️
yeah and stalin and his dogs dud not suffer. i guess they had to much to eat and drink, they trashed food and meal, while peoole died of starving in ukraine and kazahkstan
Dekulakization was all around the Sovet Uniov including Russia. My great-grandparents were living in the central part of Russia. They have been dekulakized as well.
but there is no denial that Kazakhs and Ukrainians were hit by famine disproportionately worse than Russian SSR. Its this difference that makes it a man-made artificial famine.
What’s even scarier is that until a couple weeks ago when I learned about the Holodomor in school, I had no idea what that was, nor did anyone else in my class.
Thank you for covering “The Holodomor” in your channel. It’s important for the world to learn more about that. It will help people to understand more of what is going on today between Ukraine and Russian occupants.
the last 8 years in DONBASS as well help people the origins of this war (for example the UKRAINE shelling of civilians in DONBASS - 2014 В Зугрэсе ваши нацисты разбомбили школу и детский пляж.....
@@ola-fo8xy as not truth as countless Ukrainian civilians blown up by the mines that Ukrainian military started to throw everywhere on the beaches after Russia finally interviened into your civil war in 2022?
Stalins Wife at the time was appaled to hear about what was going on in Ukraine during her time in Univeristy. She argued with stalin a lot about it and people argue its one of the reasons she killed herself in November 1932.
@@Hikoplouyr I'm assuming you watched the video. The farmers were set unrealistic production quotas, and if they didn't meet them they had all stored food taken from them to force them to attempt to meet their quota. But if you watched the video, you would have known that. Hence, the farmers taking the tanks, is ironic as the Russians took their food. But you watched it right?
there are more crimes of soviets not much people know about. of course, pro soviets, pro-russian will call these historic truth lies. they cant stand the facts the soviets did horrible crimes.
This video just made me realize that something is wrong in my home country, the Philippines. We are an agricultural country but we lack food security and continue to consume other countries' food, specially rice. Unlike Ukraine, no famine here, but it carries the same irony.
Food security doesn’t mean you have to grow your own food Plenty to countries don’t have their farms, Eg: Singapore/Hong Kong/Bahrain/Kuwait Only a few countries I can think of that can sustain themselves with good grown within its borders, Eg: Australia, aussies have to grow all their own food since the government banned all fresh food imports for food safety reasons) and maybe China (China has tonnes of farmland that grows everything)
Wow, thank you so much for spreading the word about this. This gives me chills because it's the exact same scenario happening in rural parts of Croatia while being a part of Yugoslavia. The stories of the great famine told by my grandpa make so much more sense to me now, i see them in another, more serious and shocking way. The fact this was all happening because of just 2 ignorant leaders who faced no repercussions for this, is truly what terrifies me. With the current war happening and hearing about this chapter in history, i just have to say that Croatians and Ukrainians share so much of similarities in history events, unfortunately very bad ones. I don't think any nation can understand the current events better than us and with that being said - Croatia is here for you, Slava Ukrajini!
Recently, russia removed a monument dedicated to Holodomor in Mariupol, currently occupied. They said, "Ukraine didn't suffer that much from fasting, so why emphasise it?". History repeats itself.
Why not mention the victims of the famine of the 20xx-30xx years in all the republics of the USSR, which occurred through the fault of the then government? From hunger alone in the RSFSR, especially in the Volga region and the Southern Urals, from 2 to 6 million people died, most of whom were Russians.
My ancestors lived in Podillia region (still in USSR but close to the west border). It was easier there, though my grandma told me horrific stories of our family. Actually, there was thee Holodomors. Another two were in 1921-23 and 1946-47, they had a huge impact on South and East of Ukraine.
We were taught about this extensively in Ukrainian schools. It was kind of traumatic. I didn’t understand why there was such emphasis on this in our program. Now I know why. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
We were never taught Bandera was a shining hero, our history teacher was actually good and taught us all of the sides of ukrainian history, even the ones that weren’t pretty.
my great grandfather was forcely relocated to siberia by Stalin, he was executed there for "cursing" stalin. Stalin was really a horrible guy towards his own people.
This was already embarrassingly unknown by the average person but with the recent happenings it’s become increasingly historically relevant. V important people know this stuff. Good coverage vox
Amazing how the human greed of a few controls and kills millions. We are capable of the most wonderful feelings, but also of the most horrendous atrocities.
@@The-Devils-Advocate That's true for any economic system, Holodomor literally happened while the Great Depression devasted capitalist economies, eventually givin rise to facism.
Same thing happened to my ancestor in 1945 where half of the family members got perished way. Only difference is that "The Holodomor" was caused by Stalin while "GREAT BENGAL FAMINE" was caused by Churchill.
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Yes
@@bnwo or how Russian is bombing schools and hospitals in Ukraine?
@@bnwo guys faking to get this information from CIA
Right now the USA is starving disabled and poor people denying them medical equipment and killing them
So, put
Your money where your mouth is
@@kevintewey1157 Right now the Russian Federation is starving disabled and poor people denying them medical equipment and killing them
So, put
Your money where your mouth is
I am thankful as a Kazakh to see that even for a tiny moment our tragedy was mentioned in English language media. Hope to see more detailed videos on the Kazakh famine.
Yes, I'd love to see a episode on the Kazakh famine. It really is one of the worst things that can happen to a population. Seeing your children starve to death in your arms and not being able to do anything to help them is the worst thing imaginable.
And it is a story that is never forgotten or forgiven. It is quietly passed down the generations and used as a cautionary tale against the oppressors.
@⬆️ in the wrong We have never had communism anywhere. This is totalitarianism and all of it is wrong.
@@swish043 cope harder
They made an English language film called Bitter Harvest, but it ended up being really badly made, which is honestly really sad because it’s a story that deserves to be told and told well. ❤️❤️
You won’t as Kazakh aren’t Europeans or christians
Ironically, Russia's aggression towards the Ukrainian people has never resultat in Ukrainians trusting the Russian state. The more damage and suffering Russia inflicts on Ukraine, the more resistance they create. It's a shame that obvious historic facts are denied to this day. I really hope Ukrainians will be able to live their lives in peace again, without any outside aggression.
And now there is a war similar what happened to my contry, Finland, in the Winter war. It's a repeat of history and i dont want it repeating because we lost, but atleast we killed two times as many of them than them us.
@@bnwo Sista, stop repeating Russian narratives :-)
Help Ukraine and damage Russia.
@@robertmcduck6712 Finland didn't really lose but they were forced to give some lands to the Russians
The perspective of the Russian leader on Ukraine has been all the same; Ukraine has no sovereignty, it belongs to us, our country. Although Russians and Ukraine people have many similarities in common and both share the same origins of their countries, nowadays it's a different country. Russia should accept this fact, but sadly it seems that they don't care about the independence of Ukraine and totally ignores the sovereignty. That's why Holodomor happened, and now the invasion by Putin happened, too.
@@bnwo . So the US made Russia invade Ukraine? Does that mean Putin is a CIA plant?
As a Ukrainian, I am so thankful that Ukraine's history is being shared, and taught about in English-speaking media. I knew a lot of people from the west who didn't even know what the Holodomor was, so Thank you for sharing it.
Hey, Do you have a documentary of the Russian famine in 1921-22 which killed 5 million Russians and is regarded as one of the worst famines in history?
@@eliasziad7864 The 1921-'22 Soviet (Union) Famine had also affected Ukraine, too. 🇺🇦
@@eliasziad7864 In the Holodomor... genius boy... the soviets also shot and killed the ukrainians who were trying to escape.
That's a problem
In fact they were not even aloud to mourn their loved ones.
@@eliasziad7864 And by the way, 11 million ukrainians perished, not 5 million.
@@FriendlyCroock Ukrainians?
By the way, in Kazakhstan we have had similar story but we call it “Asharsilik” similar to Holodomor.
Dear Ukraine 🇺🇦 people Kazakh people with you, and we pray for your peace and sovereignty.
We will never forget what our people been through!
🇺🇦 💙💛 🇰🇿
В Татарстане кстати, как и во всём Поволжье тоже был такой голод, в 30-е, даже пословица осталась "голодающее Поволжье" про людей, которые быстро и много едят.
In Tatarstan as well as in whole Volga river valley by the way there was also a great famine at the same time(30's) that had it's imprint on generations to come. There's even a phrase "Голодающее Поволжье" or roughly "Starving Volga" refering to people who eat very quickly. A good amount of my relatives died back then either from famine or from "raskulachivanie" and ethnic cleansing
Thank you Kazakhstan 🇺🇦❤️🇰🇿
Thank you for your kind words. I was planning to go to Kazakhstan before the pandemic, but never got around to it. I hear it's beautiful ❤️ Слава Україно, друже
What does Asharsilik mean in the Kazakh language?
My grandmother has a photo of the family, and there are signs "+" and "-" on it, once upon a time, my mother asked my grandmother what kind of photo it was, but she didn't say. Years later, my grandmother told me that the "-" sign meant who didn't survive the Holodomor, and the "+" sign meant that they survived. She also said that earlier, when there was the Soviet Union, she was afraid to talk about it, so she didn't tell my mother about it.
@@coelho7156 Stalin is not he killed Ukrainians! you don't get it? you must support Putin and you support the Russian invasion of Ukraine!
@@coelho7156 People who support Stalin are supportive of Russian invasion of Ukraine!
@@coelho7156 no
@@coelho7156 checks out /s
@@coelho7156 Troll.
I'm Ukrainian and I'm so thankful for what you did. A lot of historians in America are still learning this fearful page of Ukrainian history. If you will do something about history and Ukraine again, it would be interesting if you contacted historians such as Timothy Snyder and Yaroslav Hrytsak. As a person who researches cinema and makes content about it, I recommend Agnieszka Holland's film "Mr Jones" (2019).
And, so many people don't realize how important Ukrainian agriculture is to Europe and Africa. I am afraid it will be a very hungry winter next year.
absolutely not
The decapitation of leadership and subjugation and exploitation of a people is exactly what the US did to African Americans. They instigated events that led to the assassination of black leaders like Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr while instituting a system of brutality and exploitation of the African American people that lasts till today
If the African American people were armed by western nations with anti aircraft missiles, anti tank weapons, we might have a chance at winning our liberty and freedom
А в России голодомора не было, да?
@@AlexanderSavchenko91 по-перше, ви голодомор заперечуєте у себе там, тому це якийсь дисонанс. По-друге, мені взагалі байдуже, що у вас там було, якщо чесно.
My grandmother survived three forced collectivizations and the Holodomor. She witnessed people dying on the road, saw little children swollen from hunger, heard stories of cannibalism, ate leaves and frozen rotten potatoes found somewhere in the garden. All the harvest and food supplies were forcibly taken and spoiled, but the main thing was not to let people eat.
She mentioned children from Kherson, whose parents died from starvation, brought to her village, so that the people who had at least a cow, adopt them... 😢
In our family, we never wasted food; if a piece of bread fell on the floor, we picked it up, kissed it, and asked for forgiveness. This memory stays with all of us forever
This is the first time I see this topic to be covered on such a big channel. And as a Ukrainian, I am really grateful to you for that.
It's a common wound for many Ukrainian families. This video even made me cry a little bit.
Thank you, Vox team
kulaks destroy their own land and livestock right before a drought. why would stalin do this?????
Slava ukrain@
@@vdown_fall8582 This video forgot to mention that people under communism always become unproductive (innovation stifles without the possibility of a reward) because they are not going to benefit from surplus or "doing better than average". This caused farmers to fail to meet their quotas and thus why the law was put in place to then "take everything" since "meeting the quota" "for the good of the country" was more important than the individual farmers' families who needed some left over grain to eat and to trade to buy other essentials. some farmers were actually *self-sabotaging* because they didn't believe it was fair they had to give EVERYTHING up no matter how plentiful their harvest was. Human nature is important when considering theorized unnatural ideologies. Theories don't always pan out according to how humans will naturally behave.
another part they totally left out was how millions of the "kulaks" who died were GERMANS in GERMAN colonies. Put those dots on the map over the villages and old maps and you will see they are *mostly* GERMAN people. (looks up "germans from russian empire" to find old maps of their parishes.) This is a huge reason why Hitler later invaded Russia... because German colonies founded in the early 1700s and 1850s and later, were all across the soviet union. Hitler wanted to claim the land that his German people lived on and to FREE THEM FROM COMMUNISM.
@@mayamaeru I'm not reading all that. Also the soviets won the space race
Kieth Woods: "russian" oligarchs.
Igor Kolomoisky.
Great russian famine, Holodomor, Famine in Khazakhstan, Lazar Kaganovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Aron Solts, Filipp Goloshchyokin, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel
This is timely and extremely needed for the historical background
Agreed!
Agreed x2!
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Agreed x4
There were two different famines in Russia: 1921-1922 and 1930-1933. This is talking about the later. The worldwide Great Depression was from 1929-1933.
Herbert Hoover offered aid to Russia, which was initially rejected, and finally accepted by Lenin, in the 1st famine. This most likely saved millions of Russian lives.
The more I have been learning about Ukraine history the more I understand the amazing will, resilience and determination of its people to be free. They have been constantly brutalized by Russia and let down by Europe and the West.
thank you so much for your kind words!
Thank you.
The West and Europe let Ukraine down while Ukraine was always there to help everyone.
@@waysofzen yea is that why your economy is struggling while your president is a billionair in not even 4 years being a president
Thx
My family lived through the Blight in Ireland, another engineered famine. I grew up hearing stories about it from my great-grandmother. It's such an awful way of controlling a populace, and it's awful knowing that it's happened so much and in so many places.
@The Richest Man In Babylon can't believe there's still members of the British aristocracy haunting the youtube comments. ghosts are real
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How old are you? that happened in 1847.
❤️YOU DO NOT HAVE TO FEAR DEATH IF YOU BELIEVE IN JESUS CHRIST, AND TRUST IN HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART, BECAUSE HE ATONED FOR YOU FOR ALL YOUR INSULTS, THAT YOU WOULD OBTAIN PEACE WITH ALMIGHTY GOD, AND GO TO HEAVEN BY HIS GRACE!🎉
@@Gamenetreviews Wouldn't most people (Adults) have great grandparents who lived in the 19th century? or maybe I'm doing the math wrong
Every Ukrianian family has a Holodomor survival story from their grandparents/great-grandparents. Entire villages, cities, districts had been wiped out, mostly in Eastern Ukraine. This is the number 1 reason there are so many Russian-speaking people in the East of Ukraine, because the areas were repopulated with other ethnicities from the Soviet Union.
This is incorrect. Many families don't have any information about their pre-WWII history. And that's what every family has a survival story about.
@@ВикторФирсов-е9ф I don’t get what you want to say. How could people not have pre WWII recordings, every family has it’s story.
Kieth Woods: "russian" oligarchs.
Igor Kolomoisky.
Great russian famine, Holodomor, Famine in Khazakhstan, Lazar Kaganovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Aron Solts, Filipp Goloshchyokin, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel
@@Offwekid Sadly, no. Every 7th person in Ukraine has died during WW2. And around 90% of the jews were exterminated.
Everyone has a history, but for many it is impossible to find.
@@ВикторФирсов-е9ф Russian troll
My great-grandfather’s family had a small farm near Kyiv. In 1929, they heard about other farmers being executed or sent to Siberia and so they all abandoned the farm and fled to Kyiv by foot, attempting to save their lives. My 16-year old great-grandfather got a job at a local cab service and lived in a stable. That’s how my family moved to Kyiv.
My mother’s side of the family was less lucky though. They were village peasants unaffected by the collectivization so they stayed in the village. Most of the family did not survive the Holodomor.
Thank you for making this video and telling the truth about the long and horrifying history of Russian imperialism!
Glory to Ukraine! 🇺🇦
@@ewadfe3705 show us that proof then.
I know ur not having good time with the Russians. But it was *Stalin's* imperialism.
Who wasn't a Russian by the way. And sent many Russians to to Gulags.
@@DESIBOY-fe7nm Holodomor was not the first or last time someone tried to destroy Ukraine from Moscow.
Also, the USSR continued the Russian imperial project. Other nations had to assimilate and their cultures and languages were marginalized.
It’s a cautionary tale to think the Soviets were not imperialistic in their policies toward the non-Russian cultures.
@@StanleyPepper u so funny as ur tales
@@idontmakecontent4870 Having fun being a bot?
Many of dietary and culinary habits comes from that starvation period: eating a lot of high calorie food, not wasting even a bit of food that left on the plate, bread became basically a must on the table and practice of preparing a lot of bottled, conserved food in case of something.
My father is originally from Ukraine. He always tells me when I eat, "Finish everything. Don't leave food for the enemy." Of course, I found it amusing in the past. Who is this "enemy" he talks about? I had always wondered why he said that, until now.
@@samuelantipov891 That sounds somewhat patriotic of your father, it's beautiful.
@@bluebirdbirddddd mostly Ukrainians and Kazakh, definitely not Russians. You were creators of this horror. Own to it!
Famines actually turn our genes on and off, and these markers on are passed down two generations. There was an epigenetics study of the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-45, and people who experienced it in the womb died younger and had more health issues.
Remember Israel will take no responsibility for this. The biggest perpetrators are the biggest victims.
As a Ukrainian, I am grateful to you and your great support for Ukraine. To this day, we have the moral rule to not take out bread to trash because you never know if the future will or will not bring you the moment when you won't have even a crumb of it.
This is where it's from? My parents are from Ukraine and they taught me to never ever throw food, expecialy bread. Even now, the bread that goes stale, they give it to the neighboorhood dogs but don't throw it away. And we should always also eat everything from the plate, so when I first ate with my friends out when I was little and saw how much food they would live on the plate I was shocked to my core, never saw it home.
Hey, i'd like to see a story about thew Russian famine of 1921-22.
@@eliasziad7864 ask Russian government to stop censoring and obliterated archive they didn't like. Good luck.
@Nate Higgers You sound like a real nice fella
@@eliasziad7864 And who caused that? The West? Or Stalin, who Russians glorify to this day?
Thank you for covering this terrifying episode in the history of my country. My grandparents live in rural area, they parents experienced that horror.
There indeed were the prohibition to move to cities from the village and that prohibition continued up to 70s. Basically people were slaves, they didn't have passports or any rights, they couldn't change anything.
In the Saint States federation of North America people also have no passports, this is legit for 85%+ of the pupulation. So they were slaves?
Cry louder, roll on the ground and cosplay an "always the victim" more.
A hint: this won't allow you to build "a second Israel".
@@worldoftancraft The problem was not in passport absence but in absensce of basic human rights that other USSR citizens had. For example freedom of movement or freedom to choose a job, without passport one couldn't move to other village, couldn't move to a city and could find any other job except of working on local collective farm. So lack of those rights I call slavery.
@@ohyoyshozebulo Lack of those rights or lack of the activity and audacity to do anything with the self? How was the population of cities increasing? With the help of «magic»? Or «somehow» Populus of rular areas was moving in towns?
@@worldoftancraft I am talking about a particular case of the lack of rights of my grandparents and other villagers. And you don't have any right to doubt they words you even don't know them.
What is problem in saying "thank you" for making video about the history that happened with my relatives? Why you so aggressive about commenting the video?
@@ohyoyshozebulo because calling a multiethnic tragedy “a conscious act of Murdering poor Ukrainians just for fun because atrocious Rick.Tator Stalin did order” does not represent the actual truth nor helps anyone. Oh, right. It helps the poor Ukrainian nationalists to build Their Own National Myth. Like we didn't see enough of things of this kind.
P.s. what did I doubt? That your relatives are A PART OF THE SOCIETY, thus, they are INFLUENCEABLE to an AGENDA? See, it's a worldwide thing. Isolate yourself from the society and its gifts to be truly independent.
As a Bengali, I would request you to please make a similar video on the Britain-created Bengal Famine of 1943 that killed at least 3 million people. My grandmother who was kid then recounts the horrors of the time. She lost her mother to the famine.
British Raj actions played a huge roll in the famine death toll.
But can we really say it was only British created ? And is it comparable situation to Holodomor ?
Yes I agree, it needs to be talked about
@@alexandredelneste270 the bengal famine was made due to Churchill’s policies and imperialism
Yes, Winston Churchill was responsible for it. But the Western media would avoid showing him in a bad light, he is one of the heros of WWII. I mentioned the same in a comment but now I see it was probably deleted. I don't know why.
@@ultracoolfreakofnature Yes, they deleted a lot of comments relating this to Churchill.
My relatives were repressed because they owned a large garden and a silkworm on the shores of the Sea of Azov. They pioneered silkworm technology in the region and developed it further.
My great-grandmother and her children survived the famine by fishing and collecting plants. But her husband was sent to a labour camp for uranium mining, where he lost his health and died shortly after returning.
Another great-grandfather of mine was sentenced to 20 years and exiled to Siberia (eastern Russia) for supporting the Ukrainian national identity. While in the camp, he went on strike and raised the convicts against the bosses. For this, he received another ten years in prison. After Stalin's death, he was rehabilitated and returned to Kyiv. He would not be surprised now because of the war. He then already understood everything about the Russian government. Since then, the methods have not changed.
Thank you for sharing this theme with a foreign audience.
If you were still in Ukraine: 💀
You are such a liar. Your great-grandfather did not serve 20 years in the Gulag, as most sentences were 5 years, and anything above 10 was rare. Also, your greedy kulak family deserved it and worse.
The men have changed but the Methods have not.
Break up Russia!
My papa lived through the famine aswell, but in Lviv Region, he survived off berries in the forest, once the war started the soviet government came to his village and started rounding up the men to be sent to siberia, his brothers got sent off but he hid in the forest for 3 years surviving off the same berries before they found him. Russia has never been our friend
Eastern Russia 🤣 Siberia is Asia, Not Russia
I'm glad this is getting more attention.The Holocaust understandably and deservedly gets a ton of attention, but the slaughter which took place during Holodomor wasn't far off and sadly most non-Ukrainians have no idea what it is at least in the US. As a Ukrainian American I can definitively say the impact it had on our culture was tremendous. Up until they passed away my grandparents ALWAYS insisted I eat more and would get upset if I didn't and not just in the way "normal" grandparents do, not to mention the amount of preserved food they kept hidden.
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
@@ewadfe3705 Bad Bot
@@ewadfe3705 why do I have to talk about other countries if my country was in slavery for all the existence of the soviet union? stalin wanted fully conquer Ukraine, as all the rulers of russia did and doing now. why should we be silent about all of it?
@@ewadfe3705 this is a disinformation bot. Probably a russian bot farm. Please ignore it and do not comment
@@Jayheid98 your mother is a disinformation bot you know that?
This is scary...here in Croatia in school we are learning about this and when teacher was explaining what Ukrainians where going through during Holodomor,our teacher started crying soo loud that she couldn't stop,we were so shocked by these stories...😭🇭🇷❤🇺🇦
Hope you guys learn in school the massacres done there in your country as well.
@@ianhomerpura8937 dude, really?
@@brmbkl well, all countries have skeletons in their closet. Or mass graves. So yep, we need to bring up these unpleasant parts of our histories, so no one dare repeat them again.
honest question from an austrian: do you learn about jasenovac in school?
@@ianhomerpura8937 Theres a time and place. You are hijacking this discussion for your own interest, diminishing the trauma of others to attract sympathy for your case. It’s rude beyond belief, so i dont expect you to understanding what im saying.
When I started learning history in Ukrainian school we still had programmes largely influenced by the Russian view of the world the was no talk of Holodomor or Stalin and Hitler dividing Poland. They changed it during my studies. We went from not knowing anything about Holodomor to slowly talking about it, and even building a museum to collect and display the evidence.
@@ewadfe3705 Бот
@@ewadfe3705 D.... Putin bot!
@@geraldlindenberg1000 im not a bot
@@ewadfe3705 Exactly what a bot is programmed to reply
Consider why the school curriculum hides it.
My grandparents survived Holodomor. They told me the most horrific stories how people were laying dead on the streets, people eating dogs or or even their dead parents/children.
Read about the Russian famine in 1921-22.
@@eliasziad7864 The 1921-'22 Soviet (Union) Famine had also affected Ukraine, too. 🇺🇦
@@EuphoriaPiana No it was only in Russia.
@@eliasziad7864 It was not only in Russia - google it and you will see South Ukraine being affected too.
@@drdariamattingly2959 That's what I'M saying, too/as well. There are even photos to prove it.
famine = food shortage
war = special military operation
Its horrific that after almost 100 years little has changed.
War = «protecting someone's citizens». And I am not going to point at the many who had been using this
history repeats itself, this time the world isn't gonna sit by to watch Russia bully & genocide Ukraine
Guess where the Russians and Soviets learned that tactic to starve out indigenous peoples? The British as they did the same thing to Ireland during the 19th century as a result of allowing British absentee landlords to purchase their land, the Popery Laws which unfairly targeted the Irish people, and forcing native Irish to compete for limited land and grow only one crop that is not even native to Eurasia, the potato. When potato blight hit Ireland in the mid 1840s, their potato crops were wiped out, and the infamous "Potato Famine" occurred, resulting in Ireland losing over 25% of its population to out migration and deaths.
@@neltins5308 Who invented Communism? Moses Hess. Look into him a bit and then you will see what race has its fingers in all the rotten pies.
@@HalifaxHercules Who said the british were good in doing that
I believe the same thing happened to Kazakhstan, the Soviet’s divided Kazakhs almost parallel to Ukraine confiscating cattle from the « bai », the richer Kazakhs. They depended on Kazakh people to rat eachother out. Meanwhile up to 60% of the Kazakh ethnicity was wiped out and they would be a minority in their own country until 1991. If villages did not meet grain quotes they would be blacklisted unable to trade with neighboring villages. Sadly western scholars refuse to admit that this was a genocide though it is exactly like Ukraine. Kazakh scholars call this the goloshchenkin genocide.
@mario did I say he was Russian, also the Stalinist famines were much more prevalent in Kazakhstan, Ukraine, and the Caucasus
Buddy, You are central Asian and not White Christians
That's why west doesn't care about you
@@Axatttt Kazakhstan itself don't recognize it officialy as genocide. That's main problem. We are Ukrainians always say that in Kazakhstan also was genocide. So, if Kazakhstan will recognize it as genocide, we will do the same accordingly.
Why do you call yourself soviet?
@@Lilliathi cause my parents were born in the Soviet Union so I mean, if it’s part of my past I shouldn’t push it away
Putin: "It's not a war, It's a Special Military Operation"
History Repeating itself.
Newspeak is never new
Stalin: Its not Genocide, its just a food shortage!
stalin was criminal.
@Von Gröger I think you meant to type Britain
because the old crimes were not punished, the new crimes happen again. Putin and his group most be punished to avoid future crimes
More than half of my family didn't survive Holodomor. My grandpa was a baby when this happened. 😭 I keep thinking that there wouldn't be me if his grandpa didn't somehow save him bu feeding seeds
Almost all the Ukranians are grandchildren of survivors. I am feel so sorry for our ancestors
I'm from Kazakhstan, my grand grand mother (mother side) was from a family of 4. She lost 2 sisters during the starvation and her brother sometimes later during the WW2.
Ukraine is still the bread basket of Europe. We need to be planting victory gardens just like in WWII. Almost nothing is being planted in Ukraine this spring. Not one EU government has talked about conservation or reducing consumption. Next winter could be very painful.
The war will create famine just like South Sudan or Yemen.
Russia produces considerably more grain lol
Ukraine isn't making exports of grain to Europe
@@arty5876The only reason Europe is Interessted in the Borderland.
Wait did they just say 1/3 of people in Kazakhstan died in this time period? holy moly, why dont we hear that more often? why isnt there a name given to that? Not downplaying or dismissing holomodor AT ALL. but surprised I havent even heard of Kazakhstan losing 1/3 of population in few years
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
Officials say the number of 1/3 of the population but most people and historians tell about the 1.5-2/3 of population, so that they became the minor nation
My friend, the name given to the Kazakh famine of 1931-33 is "Asharshylyk". My grandma being a teenager lost her parents and 7 out of 8 siblings to it and had an incredible story of saving her little sister, but having to turn her into orphanage. She was looking for her sister all her life, but never found her... You are right, the world should be hearing more often about it.
This is partly why, after independence, Nazarbayev moved to consolidate Kazakh rule over the Russian-settled north by building Astana (now Nur-Sultan) at the center of the country.
Edwafe, is that you Putin?
Щиро вдячний за вашу роботу та викриття справжніх масштабів кремлівських злочинів! 🙏
My family wasn't affected by Holodomor, but my great-grandfather was killed during the purges. It frustrates and saddens me to see how many seemingly intelligent, well-meaning, educated people deny that Stalin was a brutal dictator.
Thank you for uploading this and explaining it to succinctly.
It's always amazing what otherwise good people will completely overlook in the name of their national pride
@@UnholyWrath3277 yeah just look at the USA
Stalin killed more people than Hitler. There are numerous statues of Stalin in the entire Russia. What would we think if there would had been statues of Hitler in today's Germany?
They deny it because they admire what he did deep down . Lots of American liberals worship him . Even top democrats
@@gargamelts it's the liberals who are full of hate . The Democrats are openly talking about how great socialism is
As a ukrainian , THANK YOU. Finally the world will be able to find out about this tragedy
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
In this war, Most Indians are on Russian side. (Long story)
But this war made a saperate fan base of Ukrainian fighters India. Your President Zelensky, is named as "Bengal Tiger" here.
I know this is random.
@@DESIBOY-fe7nm wow, this is very cool. Thank you!
tell me about your life story !! i am Canadian I would like if we can exange a bit
@@ewadfe3705 where?
Thank you for telling this story. My gradparents came from the Kiev countryside in 1915 as teenagers to NYC then PA. They never spoke English and no one in my family ever told this story. After the fall of the Iron Curtain we finally heard from relatives there. They sent a group picture which showed how desperately poor they were.
Kyiv
@@katerinsshelt3680 Holipchees and Pudahe
@@Michael-z5g2p Either Kiêv/Kijev or Kyîv/Kyjiv. Don't reinvent foreign literacy if you aren't paid.
@@worldoftancraftOnly Kyiv because Kyiv is Ukraine.
How could they tell if they came before WWI?
My grandmother told me a lot of horrible stories about Holodomor. My family was able to survive through these times only because my great-grandmother worked in collective farm and hid under clothes ears of wheat and other minor food supplies. For such actions people were killed in those days It's so sad to hear about Russia as our brotherhood nation after all this. And even more sad that these horrors are only a part of perennial red-terror on our lands. I hope that modern people will remember and investigate these horrors. Thank you for this video
Russia wasn't responsible for any of that. Russians and Kazakhs and other Soviet peoples were also victims of these tragedies. It wasn't unique to Ukraine.
@@moncliffeekuban9187 Only Russia was respoinsible for that and Ukraine the most suffered
@@mishaHrytsak How was Russia responsible for that? It was the policies of a Georgian called Stalin and the Russian people and the Kazakhs also suffered from the famine.
@@moncliffeekuban9187And Trofim Lysenko was an ethnic Ukrainian from Ukraine. He’s the pseudo scientist behind the famines. Does it mean all Ukrainians and Georgians are bad? Of course not, the point is, when Russian people are consistently demonized for things their people didn’t even do….it’s no wonder the policy around this area fails.
@@moncliffeekuban9187why else is responsible? Russia started spreading communism
I once in my life had no money to buy a single bread. Had to eat salt and sugar to aliviate the hunger. It's painful, not just the sensation of hunger but the feeling of loneliness, you feel abendoned by everyone apart from your family. But I can't even grasp the amount of despair and fear those people felt when their food was confiscated. The amount of suffering is inconceivable.
It's sad that nowadays people don't learn about this kind of atrocitie.
I studied the soviet union in depth on school, but there simply was no mentioning that a whole generation starved to death and were assassinated just because a maniac wished to erase their nation. A feel shame for my educating system.
where are you from? I think that the Holodomor is studied only in Ukraine...
And it's just one of attrocities
The same happened in Kazakhstan, that is why Kazakh and Ukrainian people treat each other well, we suffered from genocide and it was never admitted by Russian side
Марина Ливнева, почему вы записываете всесоюзный голод, случившийся в СССР дважды (1930-1933 и 1946-1947) лишь на российскую сторону? Что, в Ком. партии коммунистами были только русские? И только русские осуществляли раскулачивание, коллективизацию и прочие ужасы военного коммунизма?
Спасибо!!
The same happened to Russians as well, we all have been suffered from stalin
@@НаумовДаниил-л4т They might not have been the only ones, but they sure started it
History repeating itself, very sad 😔
Thank you for bringing these stories into light! I'm a Ukrainian but my grand-grandmothers lived in Ukraine and Kazakhstan at that period. The world must know the truth about how the soviet union treated nations that weren't russian. It is important to understand that even right now russian "federation" is largely made of nations and territories where people's money, resources and future is stolen by moscow
If the world must know about the truth, why they made the whole video only about Ukraine?
@@gook5219china russia simp you should go to wagner, theyre still recruiting. or youre only here to say that kazakhstan is not important when clearly you’re the one who isnt? their lives matter. meanwhile yours? debatable. putler will make good use of you soon
@@gook5219 What?
🤣🤣 Who cares
@@larshofler8298 Well, you care enough to reply to the comment, so...
my grandmother was burnt alive in a barn alongside the whole village with the children by the soviets
great grandmother*
I’m pleasantly surprised to not see many tankies trying to deny or justify this. I hope people will finally start to see how cruel the USSR was. It truly is surprising that people still try to defend these actions when there is so much proof. Reminds me of the stupidity of denying the Shoah.
I dont think the tankies have found the video yet, the twitter tankie community regularly celebrates this and claim the kulaks had it coming. Its actually kinda terrifying how many of them there are on twitter.
I don't think anyone in the right mind can even try to justify this.
@@loubertloubert the tankies are the lowest crab in the crab bucket society, they have no ambition and no wishes, and will pull down everyone else that wants to better themselves so they can suffer as them
@@RoboRoby321 that's basically the substrate of Russian ideology.
@@keshavleitan7800 It's like facists and holocaust denial. They don't believe it, but they have to try making their ideology more appealing somehow 🙄
Great synopsis. This is by far one of the most underreported or just outright denied genocides in modern history. The fact Russians are being subject to the same disinformation plays into how these kinds of things are outright denied today. Keep up the good work.
It was not genocide, as many people across the whole of the Soviet Union starved to death. Most fertile lands were in Ukraine & southern Russia, hence had the highest death rates. Other notable areas included Kazakhstan and ukbekistan
😂😂😂 this was not genocide
If it was then fyi Winston Churchill killed more than 4 millions of Indian during 1942-43 famine (that is the official number which many believe to be up to 10-12 millions)
@@prathamsaxena9503 Wow. Guess what. Targeted policies which directly or indirectly lead to the deaths of millions of a specific group of people? Yes its a genocide. So was the Indian starvation.
@@sillywilly2342 And what happened after all those people died? They were resettled by ethnic Russians. I'm not rocket surgeon, but that does sound incredibly familiar to a certain mustachioed German man's policy for creating breathing room. Not saying the Ruskies have that mentality. But it was pretty obvious then and more obvious now that it was a targeted effort to decimated or at least subjugate the rural Ukrainian populations by literally making them starve to death.
@@joshuawilliams8841 again, Stalin did this all across the Soviet Union. It was not JUST towards Ukrainians. Crimean Tatars, Cossacks, Chechens, Latvians, Lithuanians we’re all targeted and forcibly relocated. And in term of relocated people, of course it would be Russians who relocated these areas, because they were by far the largest ethnic group in the Soviet Union. Also worth noting, it was not just Russians that relocated these lands (some forcibly btw), but belarussians, Kazakhs etc. If you look at it only through the lense of Ukraine, which with video sneakily does, I can see why people say genocide. But when you look at the broader Soviet Union as a whole, you realise all ethnicities suffered unfortunately, and the genocide argument becomes a very week one to make
My family is german russians, they lived as germans in russia for generations. But during and after WW2, germans had it very hard in russia (even though they obviously had nothing to do with german politics). They were deported in the most unhabitable places of russia, labor camps, etc. My grandma told me that they had to work on fields all day, then government officials would seize almost all their harvest. They would hide wheat grains at home, and my great grandfather build a hidden oven into the walls of their hut, so they could bake bread at night.
And they deported other "undependable" minorities as well: Balkars, Karachays, Chechens, Ingushetians, Dagestanis, Kalmyks, Crimean Tatars, Meskhetian Turks etc... Often they shared the same forlorn lands of exile, usually in concentration camps where food and medicine were in short supply. Between 1/4 and 1/3 perished from starvation, cruelty and neglect. The Caucasian nations didn't return to their lands until 1957. The Tatars weren't allowed to return to Crimea until Gorbachev finally reversed Stalin's decree, and none of these groups received any compensation for their pain. Your fellow Germans and the Meskhetian Turks are still homeless for the most part, and the latter are still stateless in countries far from home (the Republic of Georgia has steadfastly refused to recognise them as Georgians).
@Joscha Wexler german russians spoke german and still had their german surnames unlike the so called german americans who completely were Anglonized after WW1. Even today many german russian still speak german and have family ties to german because after USSR fall, alot german russian migrated to Germany or Austria. I live in Germany and i see german russian part of germans but i cant see the same with german americans, they are actually more british or anglo american than german
That's what Russia has done throughout history. Not only during the Soviet era, but also during Tsarist era and the modern era. They did that to the Manchus and Han in northeast Qing China in Haishenwai (Vladivostok). They also did that to Polish and Germans living in Konigsberg (Kaliningrad) after WWII.
@@putinisaterrorist2047 You've never been to the US, the Amish and Mennonites still speak German, as do some Midwestern community's.
@@maxmccullough8548 i've been to USA 4 times. These amish and mennonites who speak german are around 80 to 100 years, their descendants today are Anglonized and have absolute no ties to german or germany. The only ones in USA who speak german are mostly fresh Immigrants, expats or tourists. No American born citizen after the 2nd Generation is able to speak german anymore. I've met several "so called" german americans, but only their grandparents were still able to speak german. North America specially USA was successful in erasing german language heritage. This never happened in South America or Africa ( Namibia and even South Africa ) were people of german heritage untill today still preserve their german Communities and pass the language to their descendants. USA has a german discrimination Problem.
Every Ukrianian family has a Holodomor survival story from their grandparents/great-grandparents. Personally, I grew up on my grandmother's stories about the Holodomor, about how she walked four days to another city to bring some food to her younger brother and sister. Entire villages, cities, districts had been wiped out.
If every Ukrainian family knows about the Holodomor, then let’s tell us who owned the lands of Ukraine during the Holodomor. Or do you not know the history of your own country? At that time, only part of the territories belonged to the Soviet Union. It’s better to ask Poland what kind of massacre of local residents took place there and why the locals chose the path of nationalization as a way to protect themselves from Polish aggression.
The first class I ever had in college was a genocide studies course and it was the first time I ever heard of the Holodomor. It’s terrifying to see how history has forgotten such a tragic and cruel event, and how it’s been omitted from much of education. I’m glad vox is producing these videos and sharing the historical context that shows how Ukraine has been constantly abused
I'm from Ukraine! Thank you very much for created this video and to told all the world about Ukrainian genocide.
As a Ukrainian I'm very thankful that Vox made this video, the world has to know about this horrible crime and how the soviet government tried to cover this tragedy up. We still remember the hunger and the generational trauma is still alive in the current generations. The world has to know how horrible the regime was and how many times the Soviet regime and now Russia have been trying to destroy Ukraine but will never succeed.
slava urkaini! stay strong. the light of freedom will shine over the dark of tyranny.
Haha lol
@@TsunamicBug you guys showing sympathy is funny.. comedian zelensky
Kieth Woods: "russian" oligarchs.
Igor Kolomoisky.
Great russian famine, Holodomor, Famine in Khazakhstan, Lazar Kaganovich, Genrikh Yagoda, Aron Solts, Filipp Goloshchyokin, Yakov Rappoport, Lazar Kogan, Matvei Berman, Naftaly Frenkel
Hunger ? Go look at what’s happening in yemen and all over Africa lol
Thank you for covering such a painful topic for every ukrainian, especially in such a tough time for us!
As an Irish person, learning about this hits hard and I can fully empathise with the Ukrainian and Kazakh people and this tragedy that they have survived. Something like this can never be forgotten or forgiven. If you starve a population be prepared for 1000 years of hatred.
Watch Europa the last Empire, then talk
@@kingdongo4388 what's it about?
P.s. that sounded a bit rude, just so you know.
I also have Irish Protestant roots from my Dad's side.
My paternal ancestors migrated from Poole to Ireland, and then Ireland to Newfoundland's Northwestern Avalon Peninsula during the mid 18th century.
Don't forget that 1/5 of Newfoundland and Labrador's population have Irish roots, mostly Irish Protestants and Catholics.
While the potato famine didn't effect my family, it still did a lot of damage to my ancestors, including a 1/4 of Ireland's population either perished or forced to go to North America for a better life.
@John Barrett it was the Catholic population who were starved. And it was mostly caused by the heavy taxes that the Catholics had to pay to the Protestant lords.
Empires will fall into the sea
And the winds are blowing from everywhere
They will not use fortresses and bunkers...
Kazakhstan suffered from famine too, as was mentioned from 30 to 50% of population died from starvation and Soviet government has never acknowledged it. Moreover, even here in Kazakhstan people do not talk that much about it, since for a long time it was only briefly mentioned in school textbooks, as if it wasn't a big deal. Another thing making the whole situation worse is that Kazakhs seemed to Soviet government as backward people, who are not capable of cultivating crops properly (regarding the nomadic past of the country as a sign of cultural underdevelopment), hence, the famine was partially their fault.
Kazakh call it Great Jut (Ұлы жұт), while the word Jut itself is usually applied to a massive loss of livestock. Well, instead it was massive loss of people this time. Interestingly, when we translate it in Russian we use word Holodomor too
Fillipp Goloshchyokin should be labelled the Hitler of Kazakhstan.
Thanks for bringing this up.
I can add that because of Holodomor we have cult of Bread. It's a sin to throw bread. If bread is dropped on the flour you have to say sorry and cross it like you do it in the pray. We are tought not to play with bread or food.
PS My grand grand parents always had to have canned bread. And if can spoils they replaced it with a new one.
That’s what they do in Russia
Oh my god, things like canned bread exists??? I must google it to see how it looks like
We do that in India too!
My grandfather’s brother died in Holodomor. In the summer 1933 he stole cherry from a neighbor’s tree. And the neighbor strangled him for this theft. My grandma was born later and survive a hunger after WW2 . It was lean year after the war and to survive they ate birch bark pancakes. that is, they took birch bark and ground it into flour. And baked pancakes.
the inner bark contains some meagre nutrition
Abandoning Ukraine seems to be a habit we have. So terrible that we are still abandoning these brave good people.
abandoning any country that isnt in western europe or north america is a habit all of you guys have and yall need to stop it
@@ewadfe3705 Where is your proof?
And let's talk about American war crimes. The thing is, many Americans are not shy about talking about bad things that happened in its past, or present for that matter.
@@imblack011 This is true. The Warsaw Pact made sure to not abandon Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
@@answerman9933 they arent shy to talk about it if they actually even know. some western media severely under reports western atrocities
Actually I think they do not severely under report. But you can give me real examples. And by real, provide actual data points that can be compared and not just say ""but it was much worse than that"
Never forget that if you have what an Empire wants, they will stop at nothing to get it. Ireland, India, Ukraine, Iraq, Yemen and Palestine. The same pattern repeats.
Solidarity with Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes.
Agreed. Thats why Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea are also heroes!
@@khalira1 North Korea? hahah
@@khalira1 I have met dozens of people from Venezuela, they dont see their current leader as a hero
I wasn't aware of such an important part of history, thanks for bringing light on this.. I hope it reaches more and more people
The fact you weren't aware is the biggest failure of "the West's" history lessons of the post-WW2 era. it's beyond surreal.
Many intellectuals were Screaming about it, most notably Jordan Peterson.
I don't care if you like him or not, he often sees far into the future & is worth listening to for that fact alone.
The Ukrainian people have been through things that no human beings should ever have to experience. My heart is with them.
Russians should, so they would finally repent
What about palestine?
Povolzhye famine?
@@milansvancara Ukraine is the boy who cried "Russia". So far, it's Ukraine who's repenting for all the dead children in Donbas.
Remind me who started the war in Donbas, and funded the separatists.
Thank you Vox. I'm in Kyiv right now and I'm grateful you're supporting us and telling our story
For me as Ukraine 🇺🇦 very important to show this to the world. Thanks Vox. My great grandma told me the story when I was a kid. Her parents had 10 kids and only she and her one brother survived. The police came over and confiscated everything eatable from the house.
Thank you for voicing this tragedy. Ukrainians will never forget it. The world shouldn’t too. And for this to not happen, all of us should act, act beyond expressing concerns - act like your own future depends on it. Because it is.
Yes, like Indian will not forget how Winston Churchill killed millions of people in 1942-43 to win world war
BTW you might have never heard of it because, they were Brown and Not white like Ukraine
@@prathamsaxena9503 and many people haven't heard about the genocide of Ukrainians despite them being white, so people should already stop being offended without any reason
Georgia will be punished.
Thankfully with the internet, this will never be erased
Now pls talk about Kazakhs(Kazakhstan), we have lost the half of our population because of the same action on our land
Alga Kazakhstan 🇰🇿🇰🇿
People across the entire Soviet Union suffered during the famine, but it seems people only remember the deaths in Ukraine
@@JamilAhmed-md8mf That’s probably because Ukraine was affected the most.
Brief mention at 10:12
it was mentioned in the video
Wow my father told me long ago the faminevis why my grandmother stowawayed a boat from the Ukraine to the US. I tried to find information about it long before Google was a thing and I thought he must've made it up. However this story confirms it. Thank you for reporting this information. Спасибо
My grandparents were lucky enough to barely survive.
Their stories were almost exactly as this video described it.
Unfortunately, these stories are not uncommon.
I first learned about this history when it was briefly spoken in the tv series Chernobyl. Up to this day I still can't believe that a person could perpetuate such misery.
Oh, so you haven't heard of Mr. Trump ?
If you can’t believe it, then maybe apply some skepticism.
Thank you so much for this. I don’t know why there is this historical hatred and abuse toward Ukraine by Russian dictators,but it needs to be called out for what it is - genocide. While “experts” are debating whether the current situation in Ukraine is “genocide”, thousands of lives are lost and millions are homeless and refugees. The genocidal nature of this invasion is self evident, especially if you consider the historical facts. The Ukrainian people deserve peace once and for all, and the world needs to support them and acknowledge the truth.
@Max_CSD Loradon right but Stalin was the leader of the USSR with the concentrated power in Russia
@Max_CSD Loradon But he was the absolute leader of the USSR at the time when that famine happened. Was caused when a dictator (Stalin) wanted both to replace Ukraine's small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence-minded Ukrainians who posed a threat to his totalitarian authority. so stop your nonsense alibi.
@@cabonegrojohnpatrick6930 these famines happened in russia proper as well....it's more a policy failure than a genocide
@@leaveme3559 if your policy causes millions of deaths that is genocide
@@newmonster3677 so wait russia commited genocide against russians as well?
I wish Vox can make a similar story about Kazakhstan, which was hit even worse in terms of percentage of the population
You know very well that farmers settling in Kazakhstan where mostly Ukrainians back then.
@@funki4896 woah relax dude
@@2MinuteHockey don't worry I am
@@funki4896 the vibe-check has determined...
that was a lie.
@@funki4896 It was mostly cattle, not grain confiscated in Kazakhstan.
Another tragic topic foreigners may have no idea about is "Executed Renaissance" Consider making video on it too. Same historical period as Holodomor. Briefly, it was USSR wiping out Ukrainian artists and intellectuals. Shooting two artists at once with a single bullet was one of the methods as they saved the ammunition (for other victims).
What other fairy tales you will tell?
@@Hariester степ, купи сахар
@@Sasha-ym4ts ты о чём?
@@Hariester stop you Russian bot. Thats like saying america never used slaves or created the trail of tears.
@@Hariester do you use NordVPN?
This is my first time seeing this covered on such a large platform. As a descendent of surviors of the holodomor + the labor camps that followed, it's great to see this history taught, as there seems to be a lack of presence in large history resources, and cetainly not in as much detail as other events. So thank you, truly
My great-grandfather was arrested for being "a kulak".
We don't know what happened to him. Some say he was executed right near his village, others say he was sent to build The White Sea-Baltic Canal.
Our family also tried to hide some grains in their garden, like the people from the video, but police have noticed a fresh looking hole in the ground and dig up everything.
My great-grandmother said the policeman was standing on his knees and picking up each single grain that fell down on the floor.
She buried her 2 children who died from starvation near her home.
Her third child, my grandma, survived, because she was a toddler, and the family managed to get her out of the village.
Some acquaintances from Kharkiv looked after her.
My great grandfather was also arrested as kulak and he was russian 🤷 it was the common problem of the whole USSR, not something created specifically against Ukrainians 🤷
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
Try to contact the archive of the region where your great-grandfather lived, they may have a copy of your great-grandfather's criminal case. To do this, you do not even need to go anywhere, just send a request by e-mail to the archive and if the case is found, you can receive a scanned copy of this case by mail.
@@great_filter we already did many years ago. We sent request to both Ukrainian and Russian archives. Unfortunately, no records were preserved
Literally one of the reasons for the Ukrainian famine was kulaks hiding their grain and it rotting or even burning it. Congratulations, your family contributed to the general suffering of the ukrainian people 👍
It is so important as humans to not only learn your history but histories of different cultures. I am not Ukrainian or Russian but the compassion I have for humans is beyond what country we are from. I am from a “race” that has and still struggles and I realize how much through life we all have especially our ancestors.
Guys, thank you for this amazing work! For your information the same thing happened in Kazakhstan. But even in bigger scales. It would have been good, if you could make whole series about famine policy in Soviet Union.
I never knew that happened in Kazakhstan
маштаби були інші. Кількість померлих була більше в Україні, а відсоток у Казахстані.
They don't care about Kazakhstan. They did this video solly for Ukranians
As someone from Kazakhstan I simply don’t understand the people that support Stalin or communism in general. My great grandparents were exiled by Stalin to Siberia and stripped of possessions.
Why?
@@adricpia5791 because a Post Soviet person supporting Stalin is like a chicken supporting kfc. They’re essentially supporting the person and his policies which killed 20 million people
not all communism is stalinist or authoritarian/genocidal though
but I understand your pain
@@rimut230 most, even the countries that didn’t commit genocide were still repressive
@adricpia5791 Just because ussr is a terrorist country
Thank you again Vox, you covered this horrifying act extremely well.
There was no famine. It was a "special agricultural operation".
Thats highly false. It was not genocide. I have proof. The Ukrainians were lazy and wouldnt work, then the Soviets tried to help but failed. Also talk about guatamo bay and american war crimes.
@@ewadfe3705 Gr8 b8 m8.
@@ewadfe3705 he's making fun of Putin who called the current Ukraine war a "special military operation"
@@ewadfe3705 yep, definitely bait
@@bru9 it’s bait, don’t fall for it
Glad to know that such a tragedy has finally been covered by such a big platform. This has often gone hidden in the long history of the Soviet Union and honestly surprising how nobody has talked about it yet, so thank you Vox.
Hungry, but mostly productive five-year plan.
@@fourleaf7570 what is that supposed to mean?
tragedy that kulaks caused, not Stalin.
@@coelho7156 oh please, Stalin is infamous for his uncaring cold-blooded decisions. This does not surprise me. It is almost expected
@@BurdenofTheMighty kulaks killed 30% of all the soviet unions cattle.
Remember, these were people just like us! With loved ones, dreams, memories, etc.
My grandma lived through it. She witnessed a neighbor going mad from hunger and devastation and once one of her 4 kids died, she had to feed the deceased kid to the rest of surviving children, but she never told them where she got the meat from. Couple of months later she hanged herself coz she could not take it anymore. 3 kids survived. Their last name was Shvets. But how many didn’t make it!
Thank you for spotlighting the topic ❤️
yeah and stalin and his dogs dud not suffer. i guess they had to much to eat and drink, they trashed food and meal, while peoole died of starving in ukraine and kazahkstan
Dekulakization was all around the Sovet Uniov including Russia. My great-grandparents were living in the central part of Russia. They have been dekulakized as well.
but there is no denial that Kazakhs and Ukrainians were hit by famine disproportionately worse than Russian SSR. Its this difference that makes it a man-made artificial famine.
Did this happen around Samara, Kazan, and Orenburg?
What’s even scarier is that until a couple weeks ago when I learned about the Holodomor in school, I had no idea what that was, nor did anyone else in my class.
Americans school don't teach much History.
Thank you for covering “The Holodomor” in your channel. It’s important for the world to learn more about that. It will help people to understand more of what is going on today between Ukraine and Russian occupants.
the last 8 years in DONBASS as well help people the origins of this war (for example the UKRAINE shelling of civilians in DONBASS - 2014 В Зугрэсе ваши нацисты разбомбили школу и детский пляж.....
@@vitapavacllp999 that;s simly not true. do some factchecking abov russian and russia-supported articles
@@ola-fo8xy as not truth as countless Ukrainian civilians blown up by the mines that Ukrainian military started to throw everywhere on the beaches after Russia finally interviened into your civil war in 2022?
Stalins Wife at the time was appaled to hear about what was going on in Ukraine during her time in Univeristy. She argued with stalin a lot about it and people argue its one of the reasons she killed herself in November 1932.
This is one of the most tragic pages of our history. Thank you for covering this and showing a big audience our history
It makes it all the sweeter to see Ukrainian farmers stealing Russian tanks...
Thanks for sharing the history of this horrible episode of humanity...
How does the famine make it sweeter if the russians werent involved in the famine?
@@Hikoplouyr I'm assuming you watched the video. The farmers were set unrealistic production quotas, and if they didn't meet them they had all stored food taken from them to force them to attempt to meet their quota. But if you watched the video, you would have known that.
Hence, the farmers taking the tanks, is ironic as the Russians took their food.
But you watched it right?
@@warpmonkey ahh the farmers got thier revenge
Thank you for the video. It's important to remember and prevent.
This page of history will never be forgotten. The whole world is watching. Stay strong, Ukraine!
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa Yes. Germany cant be blamed as well, afterall the leader was Austrian
Thank you for bringing this topic to light, I've researched this topic and not enough people know about it.
there are more crimes of soviets not much people know about. of course, pro soviets, pro-russian will call these historic truth lies. they cant stand the facts the soviets did horrible crimes.
This video just made me realize that something is wrong in my home country, the Philippines. We are an agricultural country but we lack food security and continue to consume other countries' food, specially rice. Unlike Ukraine, no famine here, but it carries the same irony.
Food security doesn’t mean you have to grow your own food
Plenty to countries don’t have their farms, Eg: Singapore/Hong Kong/Bahrain/Kuwait
Only a few countries I can think of that can sustain themselves with good grown within its borders, Eg: Australia, aussies have to grow all their own food since the government banned all fresh food imports for food safety reasons) and maybe China (China has tonnes of farmland that grows everything)
But a famine never happened here cause we are a tropical country with only Dry and Wet Season and plants easily grow here. Even without trimming it.
as a Malaysian I feel your pain. my country imports obscene amounts of produce from China, even though we have large agriculture.
My mother experienced the Holodomor. She told me how the livestock was driven out of their village, how their grain and garden harvest was stolen.
Wow, thank you so much for spreading the word about this.
This gives me chills because it's the exact same scenario happening in rural parts of Croatia while being a part of Yugoslavia. The stories of the great famine told by my grandpa make so much more sense to me now, i see them in another, more serious and shocking way. The fact this was all happening because of just 2 ignorant leaders who faced no repercussions for this, is truly what terrifies me.
With the current war happening and hearing about this chapter in history, i just have to say that Croatians and Ukrainians share so much of similarities in history events, unfortunately very bad ones. I don't think any nation can understand the current events better than us and with that being said - Croatia is here for you, Slava Ukrajini!
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Recently, russia removed a monument dedicated to Holodomor in Mariupol, currently occupied. They said, "Ukraine didn't suffer that much from fasting, so why emphasise it?". History repeats itself.
Because Holodomor narrative was a hoax made by Kulaks and N@zis
@@KaplingMagnum Go to a pub in Kiev and explain that to people there.
@@Truthaholokz Go to pub in Moscow and explain it there, ruzzkie.
Thank you for sharing this. All people across the world should know who was Russia and what it is now.
Why not mention the victims of the famine of the 20xx-30xx years in all the republics of the USSR, which occurred through the fault of the then government? From hunger alone in the RSFSR, especially in the Volga region and the Southern Urals, from 2 to 6 million people died, most of whom were Russians.
Stalin was not Russian nor were most of the USSR leaders.
Stalin was a Georgian !! But who were the others ???? Surely you gest !!!!@@dj_m19
@@dj_m19stalin was russian, doesnt matter that he was born in georgia
why your country doesnt speak abut it? stalin was good ussr was a haven in your country vision @@antonshishenia7795
Thank you, for covering this!
My ancestors lived in Podillia region (still in USSR but close to the west border). It was easier there, though my grandma told me horrific stories of our family. Actually, there was thee Holodomors. Another two were in 1921-23 and 1946-47, they had a huge impact on South and East of Ukraine.
Ok nerd
++ в 20х роках більше всього вмерло українців Кубані, а в 40х почав страждати навіть захід(хоча більше від депортацій)
We were taught about this extensively in Ukrainian schools. It was kind of traumatic. I didn’t understand why there was such emphasis on this in our program.
Now I know why. History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.
Big yikes
Yeah it’s kinda traumatic when you getting wrong propagandist information in school
We were never taught Bandera was a shining hero, our history teacher was actually good and taught us all of the sides of ukrainian history, even the ones that weren’t pretty.
@Emil Kosz everyone knows what Bandera did, you bot. You certainly ain't opening any secrets today.
@@divx1001 no Ukraine care as much about Bandera as Russians do. At this point it’s ridiculous. The guy died more than 60 years ago, get over it.
my great grandfather was forcely relocated to siberia by Stalin, he was executed there for "cursing" stalin. Stalin was really a horrible guy towards his own people.
This was already embarrassingly unknown by the average person but with the recent happenings it’s become increasingly historically relevant. V important people know this stuff. Good coverage vox
The work you do is priceless. Missing Chapter might be the most important videos series online anywhere.
Amazing how the human greed of a few controls and kills millions. We are capable of the most wonderful feelings, but also of the most horrendous atrocities.
Greed? Socialism was supposed to be against greed.
But yeah, in the end, greed is not just about money.
Kulaks are literally put in sympathetic light in this video
@@bri1085 socialism is like a Jenga tower in some ways. You have to be patient and careful, or else the whole thing falls down.
@@The-Devils-Advocate That's true for any economic system, Holodomor literally happened while the Great Depression devasted capitalist economies, eventually givin rise to facism.
@@bri1085 I’m just saying that kulaks need to be treated humanely, as any other people.
Same happened to Kazakhstan at the same time back in 1930s
75% of kazakhs at that time exterminated and russian population bacame the majority in kazakh SSR
@@arsenalofdemocracy9985 I'm not opposing u. But if you have any proofs of it. (a video perhaps)
Please share it.
@@DESIBOY-fe7nm checks the wiki. In Kazakh SSR Kazakhs were the minority nation to 90's. just google about the Holodomor in Kazakhstan
I'm ukrainian and I'm thankful for the work you have done. The whole world should know what our nation went through while the west kept silence
Same thing happened to my ancestor in 1945 where half of the family members got perished way. Only difference is that "The Holodomor" was caused by Stalin while "GREAT BENGAL FAMINE" was caused by Churchill.
i tink the west was dealing with its own issues. There was no collective west as it is today
Thank you for creating this video. You would be surprised how few of my college students know the atrocities of Stalin.