Scholars have debated whether the Holodomor famine in Ukraine (1932–1933) was intentionally targeted towards Ukrainians or inadvertent. New evidence shows that the famine was man-made and that the Stalin regime systematically targeted ethnic Ukrainians across the Soviet Union.

My goodness, I didn’t realize Stalin had the magical powers of controlling drought and resulting crop conditions. You’ll also notice the entire world was pretty much undergoing a mass famine around the same time.

Claims that grain quotas made things untenable:

The low 1932 harvest worsened severe food shortages already widespread in the Soviet Union at least since 1931 and, despite sharply reduced grain exports, made famine likely if not inevitable in 1933.

The official 1932 figures do not unambiguously support the genocide interpretation… the 1932 grain procurement quota, and the amount of grain actually collected, were both much smaller than those of any other year in the 1930s. The Central Committee lowered the planned procurement quota in a 6 May 1932 decree… [which] actually reduced the procurement plan 30 percent. Subsequent decrees also reduced the procurement quotas for most other agricultural products…

Proponents of the genocide argument, however, have minimized or even misconstrued this decree. Mace, for example, describes it as “largely bogus” and ignores not only the extent to which it lowered the procurement quotas but also the fact that even the lowered plan was not fulfilled. Conquest does not mention the decree’s reduction of procurement quotas and asserts Ukrainian officials’ appeals led to the reduction of the Ukrainian grain procurement quota at the Third All-Ukraine Party Conference in July 1932. In fact that conference confirmed the quota set in the 6 May Decree.

— Mark Tauger. (1992). The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933

These claims of a man made famine originate from William Hearst, a disgraced American media conglomerate who was allied with the [nazis](https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/03/03/the-holodomor-and-the-film-bitter-harvest-are-fascist-lies/)

Also doesn’t really help that Kulaks destroyed millions of hectares of land and killed millions of livestock in opposition to collectivization:

“Their opposition took the initial form of slaughtering their cattle and horses in preference to having them collectivized. The result was a previous blow to Soviet agriculture, for most of thr cattle and horses were owned by the kulaks. Between 1928 and 1933, the number of horses in the USSR declined from almost 30,000,000 to less than 15,000,000; of horned cattle from 70,000,000 (including 31,000,000 cows) to 38,000,000 (including 20,000,000 cows); of sheep and goats from 147,000,000 to 50,000,000: and of hogs from 20,000,000 to 12,000,000. Soviet rural economy had not recovered from tbis staggering loss by 1941.

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“Some kulaks murdered officials, set the torch to the property of the collectives, and even burned their own crops and seed grain.”

– Fraud, Famine and Fascism by Douglas Tottle

> New evidence shows that the famine was man-made and that the Stalin regime systematically targeted ethnic Ukrainians across the Soviet Union.

How? No one will know because it’s hidden being a pay wall, so the common passerby-er just uncritically accepts the findings.

Most people who grew up in Ukraine or around it already knew that. The people that were impacted (directly or not) by the USSR know all the atrocities that the regime and its puppets committed. But our voices are never believed somehow.