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The Ukrainian Genocide of 1932-1933, or HOLODOMOR, ranks among the worst cases of man's inhumanity towards man, and is perhaps the most extreme example of the use of food as a weapon.
Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, set in motion events designed to cause a famine in the Ukraine to destroy the people there seeking independence from his rule.
An estimated 7 to 10 million persons perished in this farming area, known as the breadbasket of Europe, with the people deprived of the food they had grown with their own hands.
By the end of 1933, nearly 25 percent of the population of the Ukraine, including three million children, had perished. The Kulaks as a class were destroyed and an entire nation of village farmers had been decimated.
The Ukraine genocide is known as the bread basket of Europe
Joseph stalin, the man responsible for starting the Ukraine genocide was blamed for the death of 7 to 10 million people
The ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of 17 per minute, 1,000 per hour and 25,000 per day
''Food is a weapon'' -Maxim Litvinov
-Maxim Litinov
The name 'Ukraina' means 'borderland', and was first given to the frontier lands round Kiev in the 12th century. Ukraine is now much bigger, a country of vast open plains lying between Russia to the east and Poland to the west.
In response to the genocide many farmers rebelled violently; some slaughtered all their animals before handing over their farms; and soem destroyed their machinery. Punishment was very harsh and some people were shot.
