One of the most effective means of genocide against the Ukrainian people was the famines organized by Russia in the 20th century.
The first of these was the artificially organized famine of 1921-1923.
On direct orders from Lenin, in the occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as in areas of compact Ukrainian settlement in Kuban and the Caucasus, despite the crop failure caused by drought, 100% of the harvest and everything that could be considered food products (even waste) were confiscated. Grain was exported abroad, but a huge share was sent directly to Russia.
The commission of this crime began in 1919. It was ordered to involve troops to confiscate grain. Tens of thousands of additional people were recruited into these units. They were given permission to use weapons without restrictions in case of resistance.
Russia banned entry to these areas, maintained an information blockade for a long time and blocked international aid.
Those who dared to try to organize aid to the starving population were ridiculed in the Russian press and subjected to repression.
Just a few horrific figures: 40% of the population was eliminated in Kharkiv, and in 1922, 70% of infants in Ukraine died of hunger.
“During the mass artificial famine of 1921–1923 in the Ukrainian SSR 3,500,000 (*three and a half million!) Ukrainians died from the illegal actions of the communist totalitarian regime.”
Extract from the Conclusion of the forensic historical and source expertise dated September 3, 2020
One of the main reasons for organizing the genocide of Ukrainians was the intention to suppress the mass insurgent movement against the Russian occupiers and to suppress any attempts to restore Ukraine’s independence.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainian insurgents united into real armies and controlled large areas for a long time.
Another uprising against the occupying Russian government reached its peak in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Ukrainian families left the forcibly organized collective farms en masse, millions of Ukrainians felt mortal danger and left Ukraine, and even the Ukrainian authorities on the spots massively sabotaged the implementation of the plans that Russia provided for the collection of food. Leaflets calling for disobedience and struggle were widely distributed. Thousands of armed protests against the occupiers took place, which the Russian authorities called “terrorist attacks.”
