Wednesday, December 17, 2008

The truth about 'Holodomor of 1932-1933'.

Here is something interesting that I wanted to bring to your attention. And let me start off by saying right off that bat that if you were educated in the United States then I expect that you will know nothing about this. I was educated here in the United States and so I know that they do a poor job of teaching us about world history. So, what I am touching on today is the truth about 'Holodomor of 1932-1933'. Not familiar with holodomor? Not surprising. Here is a quick history. There was a famine in the Soviet Union in 1932 to 1933. It affected grain areas like Northern Caucasus, Volga Region, South Urals, West Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. The govt. seized grains from the peasantry and exported them to the West under a Stalin policy. The term 'Golodomor' was born then. It means the mass hunger or thegreat hunger that caused million of victims throughout the Soviet Union in 1932 - 1933. There were almost 7 million deaths during that time. Some people argue that it was a genocide. Over time to bring attention to this, 'golodomor' has been turned into 'holodomor' so that it looks and sounds like 'holocaust.' But no matter, in October 2008 the Euoropean Parliament said that it was not a genocide. What do you think?

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