"Harvest of Despair: the 1933 Ukrainian Famine" (1983) - the story of the Holodomor, the Soviet-orchestrated Terror Famine which was supposed to punish Ukraine for its independence from Russia, forced families to cannibalize one another, and ended up killing 3 million people [00:55:02]

Some disclosure: "The Harvest of Despair" is a work of propaganda. It was presented by the Ukrainian Famine Research Committee, known today as the Ukrainian Canadian Research & Documentation Centre. It's a member of the Ukrainian Canadian Congress, a lobby group driven by a nationalist-fascist ideology and that celebrates Ukrainian Nazi collaborators who served in the Waffen-SS Galizien Division. It's absolutely disgusting that Reddit is openly promoting propaganda from those with Nazi collaborationist sympathies.

The idea of "Holodomor", a neologism which sounds suspiciously similar to Holocaust and is regularly cited by far-right publicists, claims that Ukrainians were singled out, targeted, and had all their food taken away by the Soviet Government with the intention of inflicting starvation on them. It comes across as revisionist history amplified by nationalist politics in Ukraine that searches for a tragedy around which a national identity can be constructed.

Much scholarship on Russia has refuted and discredited this narrative, and it should not be taken seriously. There were crop failures that caused a famine and secret Russian government documents later revealed that agricultural production in the lead-up to the famine experienced a significant decline that by itself was enough to cause famine.

The narrative promoted by ultra-nationalists in Ukraine incorrectly assumes that there was major animosity between Russians and Ukrainians. But there isn't evidence for that. Ukrainians did not rise up against the Russian Empire the way Polish revolutionaries did in 1863. There were no pogroms targeting Russians or Ukrainians during the Russian Empire. Whether Russian and Ukrainian are different dialects or separate languages isn't even clear. Both Russians and Ukrainians largely belong to the Russian Orthodox Church. Ukrainians moved to and settled in the Caucasus or Siberia and assimilated into Russian identity within a generation. In the 1920s and 1930s, there was no ethnic strife between Russians and Ukrainians, and the conflict

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