Ukraine Man Made Famine

What would it be like to be in a man-made famine? The citizens of Ukraine went through a horrible period of time during the year 1932. Ukraine resolved that they wanted to detach themselves from Russia and become their own independent country, because they had their own unique cultures and histories. Therefore, Stalin the new leader of Russia decided he wanted to destroy all the people of Ukraine. But he didn’t do it in the usual way, like using an army. He cut off all the food and crops from them. Russia blamed many villages for keeping some of the grain, which caused a total lockdown for those villages. Russia also closed the borders between Ukraine and a mostly Ukrainian place called Kuban, and didn’t let any peasants pass through. This

Ukraine, after a long time of being under the control of Russia, decided it wanted to be its own unique and independent country. Ukrainians voted in favor of granting greater sovereignty to their own republic while preserving the Soviet Union. (Special Report: Ukraine). It didn’t want to be a part of Russia’s extremely communist like government anymore. Nevertheless, detaching from another country never goes without consequences. Russia decided to retaliate by taking away almost all the crops that Ukraine had. They went to all the privately owned farms owned by rich farmers and confiscated all their crops. Every business was shut down, to not let food and goods get around. Soviet Russia didn’t want Ukrainians to leave their country, so they sealed the borders, in effect locking them inside. Russian also didn’t want the Ukrainians to rebel, so they kidnapped and killed all the scientists and professors in Ukraine. Alas, this was not enough to satisfy Russia. Stalin also targeted for extermination a group of wealthy Ukrainian farmers called the Kulaks, and brought about ten million of them to Siberia, where it is estimated that three million of them died (Howard Ball

Ukraine decided to embrace a new system of management called collectivization, where everything like land was state owned, and not privately owned. With this in effect, the peasants and farmers started to farm the little land that they did have, and managed to grow sufficient food to be able to survive. Life became better and people started to produce more and more. Although the famine ended, that was not the end of the horror. After first welcoming the Nazis as their saviors, the Germans planned to kill all of the men in Ukraine over 15, but then they decided to put them in work camps, so that they would work to death, and murdered any Ukrainian accused of being a communist. When World War 2 finally ended, Ukraine went back to normal, started producing, and created a flourishing