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History: Debated on The Internet

There is a short, to the point website that has been brought to my attention.  Apparently, a group is wanting to get some information out about Golodomor (which means mass hunger in Russian, also referred to as Holodomor).  This occured in 1932-1933.  What had happened was not an environmental dustbowl.  On the contrary, it involved the seizure of grain in a plan cooked up by Stalin.  The grain was taken from the farms and the people to sell abroad, in order to fuel Russia’s industrialization.  It is estimated that 6-8 million people perished as a direct result of hunger.  Some sources report up to 10 million.

Those are the facts.

Now what the website is debating is the underlying motive.  It has been believed by some that the motive of this was to act as a genocide against the Ukraine.  The website is debating that it was not a deliberate genocide, that people died because of the faulty and ill executed policies of Stalin.   The former was supported by Viktor Yuschenko and others.  The latter is supported by the EU.  When a resolution was made, I wasn’t too versed on all the details of it, but do know that it was hotly debated in the areas densely populated by former Russians within the United States.  The United Nations resolved that Golodomor, also referred to as Holodomor, was a crime against humanity.  It was more than coincidental that even though people in central Russia died, that the deaths were more concentrated in areas where nationalism was rising, such as the Ukraine.

It seems completely plausible that they died by byproduct, which further proves that communism and extreme socialism do NOT work.  However, the trend of denying genocide is dangerous and irrefutable.   Either way, I do believe whether the seizure of grains was a deliberate attack of certain groups of people, or whether that was just a byproduct, Stalin, with all the scientists around him, was not stupid, and he had to know that deaths would toll in the millions.

What do you think, dear readers?   Will modern events be refuted and changed by who can make the most noise on the internet?  And what do you think about the actual event? Click to read the website in question about Holodomor.