The Death Of The Soviet Republic

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 .

Holodomor was a tragedy between the Soviet and the peasants of Ukraine. The peasants rebelled against the government. Although they were all citizens, the parties were separated by the amount of money and power they had. Joseph Stalin was afraid that the peasants would rise above him so he felt the need to find a way to stop them no matter how tragic this plan was.

Genocide is the deliberate and organized annihilation of a racial, ethnic, religious, or national group of people. The term “genocide” was not used until after 1944, when it was created by a Polish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin, who combined “geno”, meaning race or tribe, with “cide”, which means killing. The Holodomor refers to the famine of the Ukranian people from 1932 to 1933 under the rule of a Josef Stalin. Under his leadership, the Soviet Union persecuted the Ukrainian people by denying them their basic needs. An estimated 7,000,000 people died in this genocide, which is also known as Holodomor, meaning “death by hunger.”

After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the world watched Russia closely as the largest country remaining from the former superpower built itself into a democracy. However, within a short amount of time, Russia has slipped into competitive authoritarianism, giving much of the governmental power to its current president, Vladimir Putin. In contrast, another semi-presidential system, the government of France, is a strong democracy. France’s government has been largely successful since the creation of the Fifth Republic in 1958 and the most recent constitution. In addition to this, the roles of the president and prime minister have been balanced and checked since President Charles de Gaulle stepped down in 1969. These two countries, while sharing the same basic political skeleton, are vastly different in power division and, ultimately, the success of democracy. Unlike France, Russia’s democracy slid into competitive authoritarianism because of the overpowering amount of unchecked power the president has.

Tsar Nicholas II is thought to be personally responsible for the collapse of the Russian Monarchy. His nature wasn’t well suited for the role he held therefore he was an incompetent leader. Russia was undergoing many changes and was in early stages of industrialization. This was followed by an embarrassing string of defeats of which the Tsar was badly prepared. His unsuccessful involvement in the First World War added to the disappointment in the government’s incompetence and corruption. There were many opportunities for Russia to modernize but this would require political change, which the Tsar was unwilling to do. Nicholas had many opportunities throughout his reign to reform, but destroyed his last chance of survival.

The Ukraine took years to recover, and there are still groups who do not accept the famine as a genocide. Most communists say the cause of the obviously arranged famine on bad harvesting seasons. Russia also refuses to recognise Holodomor as a genocide, as there was also starvation in a few other areas, so they claim the Ukraine was not directly targeted. However, most of the world considers it as a genocide. The United States of America, Poland, Peru, Paraguay, Mexico, Lithuania, Latvia, Italy, Hungary, Georgia, Ecuador, Estonia, Colombia, Canada, Brazil, and Australia call Holodomor a genocide, while Vatican, Slovakia, Spain,Czech Republic, Chile, Balearic Islands, and Argentina acknowledge it as a coordinated act of famine. The Parliament of Ukraine created a law that recognises Holodomor as an act of carnage against the people, made denial of it in public illegal, and made November 26th Holodomor commemoration day after declaring independence from the Soviet Union in

INTRODUCTION This documentary review is about the Ukrainian Holodomor Famine Genocide 1932 - 1933. This historical event is set in Russia and Ukraine when Russia created a man made famine in Ukraine which resulted in the death of 10 million Ukrainians in 1933. The Holodomor famine-genocide is one of the world's best kept secrets as many in the international community of today have not heard of until this day. The term holodomor in the Ukrainian language means “death by starvation” (Holodomor), hence why this term is used as the title for this genocide.

The fall of the Soviet Union gave childless American couples the opportunity to adopt needy, white children. Thousands upon thousands of children from Russia and Eastern Europe were adopted in New York during the 1990’s and 2000’s, and the vast majority of these adoptions produced genuinely happy families. The children were excited to have loving families and the adoptive parents were excited to have a child to love. However, some children had difficulty transitioning to life in the United States while others were victims of abuse. Almost every adoptive case I worked with had a happy ending. Every adoptive case except for one. I hesitate to say that the “child” in question was actually a child. Sometimes I think that I legitimately was dealing with pure evil in human form.

Throughout history many men, women, and children have lost their lives due to genocide. Genocide is a deliberate killing of a large group of people. One of the many genocides that have occurred is the Holodomor, which according to The Holodomor A Ukrainian Genocide the word Holodomor is a term used to describe death or murder inflicted by starvation. The Holodomor occurred in the Soviet Union in 1932-1933 where many people lost their lives due to famine.

The collapse of the Soviet Union can ultimately be attributed to three broad, complex, and interconnected issues: The economy, Leadership, and Geography. All three of theses factors are interconnected and each contain several reasons why they contributed to the ultimate collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Holodomor is a twentieth century “genocide” that was carried out, dismissed by, and hidden from global examination for several years. Although there are theories, but no real explanation as to why and how this atrocity was carried out. It appears this action could only be completed by the leader of a totalitarian government. The Holodomor is used to describe death by starvation and comes from two Ukrainian words “holod,” meaning starvation or hunger, and “moryty,” to inflict death. In the western parts of the world, this macabre famine was little acknowledged. How and why did this happen and who was responsible for the death of these millions? The history of the Famine is still questioned.

The collapse of the Soviet Union ended one era of American Security Concerns, but it gave rise to another more extensive era. This era would be marked by concern over the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction throughout former Soviet countries and other unstable nations. Every president from George H.W. Bush to Obama would mark this issue as a key threat to the nation’s security. The true question is what would each of these presidents do about the threat. Since World War II the United States has filled the role of the “global police” opposing injustices and neutralizing threats throughout the world, and the threat of devastatingly powerful weapons falling into unstable hands could be treated no differently. With this in mind

Holodomor, or the Ukrainian genocide famine, was the forced starvation instituted against the Ukrainian people by Joseph Stalin and his followers between 1932 and 1933. The word Holodomor comes from two Ukrainian words, “holod” and “moryty.” “Holod” means famine and “moryty” means to inflict death. ( faminegenocide) The beginnings of the Ukraine started with the city of Kyiv which eventually grew to become the empire of Kyivan Rus. Over the next several hundred years control of Ukraine shifted between multiple groups including Poland and Lithuania. Eventually, the Russians came to control one part of the Ukraine and the Polish controlled the other, which eventually came to be controlled by the Austrians. Under Russian rule, the Ukraine people

The Soviet Union was notorious for the marginal quality of its housing, and the laborious process taken to gain residency. The first thing that would alarm us living in capitalist systems, is that the government determined where you live, and you applied for residency. “The fact that conditions were worse in 1960, when 60% of all families lived communally, is of little comfort to the millions still living in inadequate conditions. The waiting period for a new apartment is indefinite--it may take from a decade to a lifetime unless one has connections.” (Ellison). Chilling was the fact that housing would slowly get worse as the years dragged on. Upon finally gaining your new home, the rent would drain on your already limited funds. The houses

The Holodomor is an event that represents perhaps the darkest chapter in Ukrainian history. Holodomor is a Ukrainian word that translates into English as “death by hunger.” In 1932-33, there was a great famine in the Soviet Union that killed millions. Ukrainians remember the famine as the Holodomor. In this tragic event millions of Ukrainians perished from hunger. As a result of this event, older Ukrainians such as my grandfather still retain a deep impressionthe memory of the Holodomor deep in their minds. For Ukrainians, it was a policy of genocide launched by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to undermine the Ukrainian independence movement. His intention was to starve the Ukrainians into submission. Russia, to this day, downplays the genocidal