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Holodomor

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Meaning

(historical) The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government.

(historical, rare) А famine with mass deaths, especially one of the Soviet famines in 1921–22, 1932–33, or 1946–47.

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As members of the collective farms were not allowed to receive any grain until sometimes unrealistic quotas were met, millions starved to death in a famine known as Holodomor or "Great Famine". Source: Internet

From left, Davidson students Andrew Lee, Breanne Townsend, Phoenix Prpick and Keegan Shaw use tablets to work through an activity while on the Holodomor Mobile Classroom on April 24. Source: Internet

“We had to be very careful because Yanukovych was one of those people who denied that the Holodomor ever happened,” explains Ihnatowycz. Source: Internet

Holodomor is a term that means death by starvation and it has come to describe the Ukrainian famine much like the Holocaust has come to describe the extermination of Jews by the Nazis. Source: Internet

Verkhovna Rada Chairman Andriy Parubiy has said he hopes that the Israeli parliament will soon recognize the Holodomor as genocide against the Ukrainian people. Source: Internet

Views on Stalin in contemporary Russia Ukrainian President Yanukovych and Russian President Medvedev on 17 May 2010 near Memorial to the Holodomor victims in Kiev. Source: Internet

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