Land

A couple of weeks ago I had lunch with a couple with connections to Ukraine & they told me about the devastation that the Soviet Union brought to Ukrain in the 1930's.

This week I have been reading Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester.

Also this week, this video came across my news feed.

In the early 1930s, wanting the plentiful wheat harvests of its farmlands to sell to Europe and wanting to subjugate its people, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin carried out a genocide in Ukraine that killed millions and hid it behind the guise of food shortages. It’s known as the Holodomor.

In Ukraine, it’s become known as “the Holodomor,” meaning “death by starvation.” It was a genocide carried out by a dictator who wanted to keep Ukraine under his control and who would do anything to keep it covered up for decades.

In the 1930s, Soviet leaders under Joseph Stalin engineered a famine that killed millions as they sought to consolidate agricultural power. In Ukraine, they used additional force as they sought to clamp down on a burgeoning Ukrainian national identity. There, at least 4 million died. As hunger spread among residents, Stalin spearheaded a disinformation campaign to hide the truth from other Soviet citizens and the world. So many Ukrainians died that officials had to send people to resettle the area, setting off demographic shifts that last to this day.

Sounds all too familiar. 

• All you have to do is replace Stalin with Putin. 
• Disinformation - a fancy word for lies - continues.
• Stealing the land, an illegal war, war crimes, genocide continues