Stalin’s Forced Famine
Introduction 20th century was a very turbulent time. During that time, a lot of famous genocides happened. It is very important and educational for us to learn some of these genocides and take this history as a mirror. In this article I will compare and contract Nazi Holocaust with Stalin’s Forced Famine from several aspects.
Similarities
Similar Leaders Sometimes the leader of an event can make a huge influence on that event. As both of these genocides are very inhuman, it is reasonable for their leaders of them to have some similarities. Firstly, both of them have strong personalities and were good at using brainwashing to make most of their citizens not only followed their decisions but also believed them as
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Different Purpose First of all, in order to understand the purpose of an event, we should know its background first. The background of Stalin’s Forced Famine is that Ukraine obstructed a lot of policies which central government made and wanted to separate itself from the Soviet Union (Marples 506) However, the background of Nazi Holocaust is that almost all aspects of Germany were suffering from the unfairness which caused by Versailles Treaty after the First World War and people couldn't see any future of themselves or their country at that time (Diehl 182). Then, as the background of these two disasters are different, their purpose are also different. In the light of "the fact that Ukrainian officials informed Moscow of the situation in Ukraine and the Stalin’s letter to Kaganovich of 11 August 1932 that outlined his suspicions of the Ukrainian peasantry and his fear of 'losing Ukraine’"(Marples 506), we can infer that Stalin was afraid that Scotchman were not faithful to the central government and consequently he carried out some actions, Forced Famine, to both control and to punish
The holocaust was established by hitler to execute even more jews. About 6 million jews lost their lives during the holocaust. German authorities targeted groups that had a different racial inferiority. During world war II the germans went by the “final solution” a policy to murder all jews. The holocaust was a big shock for the jews. This dramatic experience still haunt the streets of germany.
The Holocaust was one of the most horrifying genocides in the 18th century. It was the greatest mass killing ever in History. The Holocaust had resistance but if you were a person that you were in a resistance there would be extreme retaliation if you were caught by the nazis and they will proceed more of the population to stop resistance against them. Even though they were getting smaller in numbers they wouldn’t stop fighting for their lives. Concentration camps and Jewish Ghettos were beginning to fight back and they were so prevailed even if they knew they had no chance against the nazis. Joseph Stalin heard about many resistances that were in Eastern Europe and he wanted to set an underground movement to occupy enemies but it did not work well at all. With the influx of the Jews that were in forests in hiding they would interfere with enemy communication by cutting off telephones, telegraphs and power stations. They did whatever they could stay alive as long as possible.
Genocides are classified by an eight stage process that explains the causes and identifying factors of a genocide. Both the Holocaust and Holodomor are prime examples of genocides, and although the eight stages of genocide are shown through both, they were implemented differently in some aspects. The Holodomor, a genocide in the 1930’s targeting Ukrainians, was similar to the Holocaust through the stages of classification, organization, polarization, and denial, but different in the ways of preparation, extermination, dehumanization, and symbolism.
The Rwandan and Bosnian Genocides were more similar than different due to the fact that both were supported by the governing force at the time, and both were ignited due to past tensions between two separate ethnicities.
Alongside the 20th century, another devastating genocide that occurred was the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933. Holodomor translates to “death by hunger.” Stalin instituted collectivization and raised Ukraine’s grain production quotas to an impossible 44%. He authoritatively mandated that no grain was to be given to the Ukrainians until the regimes quota was met, hence, this led to the starvation of the entire population in Ukraine .
Besides both being bad leaders, they both were overthrown from their position. The starvation was “more than the hungry
The Holocaust was a system established by the Nazis in World War II as a means to exterminate all of the people which they considered undesirable or subhuman. This included gypsies,minorities,cripples, the mentally ill, homosexuals,communists,and anyone who opposed the Nazi regime. The main target of the Holocaust was however the Jewish people. They were the main target because the leader of Nazi Germany, Adolf Hitler, believed that they were the reason for Germany losing World War 1 and thus was the reason that the German economy was in a bad state. Vladek Spiegelman and Elie Weisel were to people who were both survived their experiences in the Holocaust and both told their story in books. These books are Night by Elie Wiesel and Maus by Vladek Spiegelman.The Holocaust shaped these two different men's lives in the same way. Through their losses and experiences in this horrific point in time they learned what it meant to truly struggle and this ultimately turned them into better people.
Each of their rise to power didn't not just happen by fluke, but by manipulation of the people, without the nations even realizing it. The two rose to power when people were desperate for change, and that’s what they did. However, it came at a cost.
History is like a huge puzzle. People can keep find missing pieces to the story as they learn more about it. The Holocaust was one of those moments in history that has lead our minds to curiosity about why such a thing would occur at some point in time. For example, concentration camps. Concentration camps are one of those moments in history that make people’s jaws drop because of how flabbergasted they are to even hear of such a thing. Once you hear about one fact about the Holocaust and concentration camps you want to know every little detail about it to try and analyze what was happening and how it happened. Concentration camps in the Holocaust were a turning point in history because it lead to the deaths of millions of people.
All around us people are being discriminated for what they look or act like, the color of their skin, religion, and language. During the civil rights movement the citizens of the United States were fighting over equality.Unfortunately, a few people might have said they didn’t want African Americans in their country and that opinion spread to other people and the world of the African Americans was completely turned upside down. There is a similar story sorta like the civil rights movement and it was called the Holocaust. The Holocaust was where at one point the Jewish religion was considered “racist” and needed to be treated differently from other religions. Although, the holocaust and the civil rights movement based around two different groups of people and what happened to those people both talk about discrimination of both groups.
The Holocaust and the more recent Rwandan genocide were both events filled with inhumane cruelties and destruction. The Holocaust was led by Adolf Hitler who believed in the extermination of Jews, while also promoting the invincibility of the Aryan race. Similarly, the Hutus attempted to end the Tutsi race over a span of about 100 days. The Holocaust and Rwandan killings both had similarities as to how and who started them, their torture techniques used, the usage of scapegoats, and how the world reacted to these horrible events.
On to similarities now. The biggest similarities about theses two events is that they are
The Holocaust was a tragic piece of the worlds history. It happened from 1933 to 1945, and it was a mass killing and discrimination against people of certain races. They started with the Nuremberg Laws when Hitler became the most powerful. Hitler was a strange man who blamed Jews for the fall of Germany. There are several reasons as to why we study the Holocaust, the most important is so we never face something like this again.
Victims of the Nazism was every people who were sent to Camps or were killed by a Nazi. These people were disabled people, Jews, Romani, Slavs, POW, Ukrainians, Poles, Soviet Slavs, Non-European, Gay and Lesbians, Political, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roman Catholics, Protestants, Freemasons. But the worst part was even their own people was killed for helping the Jews or anyone that tried to. It was just a big genocide that History will never
The twentieth century was marked by genocides on an monstrous scale. One of the most terrible was the Holocaust wrought by Nazi Germany, which killed an estimated six million European Jews and almost as many other victims.