The Silent Genocide Of Ukraine : Holodomor 1932-1933

The Cambodian Genocide and Holocaust are two significant events remembered in history. During the Cambodian Genocide and the Holocaust, Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot targeted minorities that had unique identities that would put them in danger and make them weak to resist. There were several planned events that led up to the occurrence of both genocides. Both Hitler and Pol Pot aimed to take control of their country by organizing ways to kill off multiple people at once. Hitler created concentration and extermination camps while Pol Pot had killing fields. These two leaders killed millions of lives because they practiced a religion that was disliked or had a job that made too much money for the leader’s liking.

Stalin’s policy priorities were not building a ‘worker’s paradise’ or a classless society, but protecting Russia from war and invasion. In 1928, Stalin launched the first of two ambitious five-year plans to modernize and industrialize the Soviet economy. These programs brought rapid progress – but also significant death and suffering. Stalin’s decision to nationalize agricultural production dispossessed millions of peasants, forcing them from their land to labor on gigantic state-run collective farms. Grain was sold abroad to finance Soviet industrial projects, leading to food shortages and disastrous famines in the mid-1930s. Soviet Russia was dragged into the 20th century, transforming from a backward agrarian empire into a modern industrial superpower – but this came at extraordinary human cost.

“How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think” (Hitler, Mein Kampf). As time passed, there has been many times in history where a genocide has occurred. A genocide is a one-sided massacre from one party toward an ethnic or different group of people. As genocides occurred, questions such as “Why do people kill?” and “How can people allow these atrocities to occur?” are asked. There have been many theories made up as people researched the reason behind genocides. Throughout different centuries in history, genocides such as the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, and the Asian genocide, have occurred because of the negative psychological effects on the people caused by propaganda, corrupted leaders, and differences in ethnic groups.

Almost everyone knows what a monster Adolf Hitler was, but most people do not know that one of the great ally leader of World War II, Joseph Stalin, had committed even greater atrocities than Hitler. Joseph Stalin was a ruthless and yet diligent dictator of the Soviet Union, whose rise to power influenced a multitude of major events in his country’s history. Due to Stalin’s impactful reign, he made the Soviet Union become a global superpower, underwent difficult hardships such as the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, and after his death, caused the Soviet Union to go through a process known as de-Stalinization.

The mid-20th century was a time of mass murders and totalitarian regimes. Many know of the atrocities committed under Hitler’s Nazi Germany and consider it to be the cause of the highest death count of the time. However, this may not be the case. Timothy Snyder argues in his book entitled Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin that Hitler was not the sole bad guy of the time period. Despite the differing goals of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, the two regimes intertwined to create a death toll in the bloodlands region of Europe that neither could have achieved on its own and was unprecedented in western history.

Do you know about a genocide called holodomor? Holodomor was a major genocide that happened just before the holocaust. In this essay I will cover How many deaths there were and how they died, When it took place, why it happened and how. Holodomor was one of the worst genocide, it only lasted 1 year and 25,000 people died every day including children at the climax of the genocide.

In 1881 a Jewish massacre occurred in Russia known as the pogroms, which is an organized massacre of a culture group. The start of the pogroms was after Tsar Alexander II, the ruler of Russia, was killed in 1881 and it was suspected that the murderer was a Jewish man. (Antin 72) For Russia to get back, they placed all the blame on the Jewish people and the only way to get revenge was to kill each and every person who identified with the Jewish religion. In this paper my goal is to explain what the pogroms are, the major events that occurred in this time period, and what was learned from this time in history.

When looking at all the atrocities that have taken place throughout history we must put the genocides that happened in Nazi Germany and The Republic of Congo in a special category and the reason is because both possess traits that make them similar. In this paper both of these major genocides will be analyzed, in depth, and should clear up whether they were more similar or more different. The aspects of each genocide, which will be touched on, are the mechanisms incorporated in each mass killing, and what motivated these killings. Mechanisms include: who was killed and why, how were they killed, and how were mass amounts of people gathered in order to be killed. Along with the mechanisms used, the motivations are an important aspect and

The war has begun. Germany’s Nazi army is attacking other countries, and the Jews are in danger. In German-occupied Poland, Jews are being captured by the Nazis and are sent to work/concentration camps, only to be trapped there until either they die or when the war ends. Jews were forced to work in these camps, tormented and punished severely.

The crime of genocide is one of the most devastating human tragedies throughout the history. And the word genocide refers to an organised destruction to a specific group of people who belongs to the same culture, ethnic, racial, religious, or national group often in a war situation. Similar to mass killing, where anyone who is related to the particular group regardless their age, gender and ethnic background becomes the killing targets, genocide involves in more depth towards destroying people’s identity and it usually consists a fine thorough plan prearranged in order to demolish the unwanted group due to political reasons mostly. While the term genocide had only been created recently in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin, a Polish-Jewish legal

Despite the inevitability of Soviet aggression towards East, and Central Europe, the defeat at Warsaw was the last direct attempt by the Soviet Union to invade a country until the Non-Aggression Pact, 19 years after Piłsudski’s victory. However, this lull in hostilities is not a result of the Soviet Union losing the will to dominate the region. Instead Piłsudski’s victory highlighted the weakness of the Soveit state, increasing its desire to modernize. This radical desire can be seen in the witness accounts documenting the Holodomor in Ukraine, which saw the deaths of millions of Soviet Citizens. The Holodomor was the result of Stalin’s iron will and desire to modernize the Soviet Union as quickly as possible, regardless of costs. By starving the Ukrainian countryside, Stalin broke all peasant opposition to his regime, fed his industrial workers, and exported food abroad in order to import more machinery and strengthen industry. The result of this rapid industrialization can be seen in the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, which cost the Soviets dearly in lives and materials. The willingness to sacrifice so many millions in the Holodomor is a testament to the Soviets iron will to spread the revolution abroad. The defeat of Nazi Germany demonstrates the result and success of Soviet modernization. Despite the red army’s defeat at Warsaw, it had become far more dangerous to the region than it had been before. And as can be seen in the Yalta conference reading, Soviets still had

From the time humans began to exist in this world, hatred seemed to be a superior attribute that one comes accustomed to. This inevitable emotion has the ability to provoke people to engage in acts without thinking; but it is the acts that are premeditated that should be be classified as evil and brutal. This appalling endeavor is known as genocide, the deliberate destruction of a particular national, racial or religious group. Between the years of 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge party leader, Pol Pot seized power of Cambodia and forced civilians of urban regions into rural lands for labor in order to build his own agrarian utopia. Over the course of these four years, the Cambodians and other minor ethnic groups suffered through labor camps, starvation, and torture which all led up to their demise. As a result of these mass killings, the country 's population depleted by over 20 percent in just a few years. The country went through hardship during and even before the genocide began including wars, torment, and considerable numbers of deaths.

Genocide is not a random phenomenon but a well calculated mass atrocity that is carried out over a duration of time. The horrendous act occurred enough to call for nations to convene in 1948 under the United Nations Geneva Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Academia has also been able to study the phenomenon to understand different casual mechanism for genocide. First the dominate power must convince the majority that the victimized group is less than human and that a utopia will be created in their absence. This is done through polarization, othering, and the use of strong propaganda. The realization of the need to exterminate a population based on different attributes is due to fear and is a rational and

Genocide, one of the most horrendous and unexplainable events, has been a disgraceful phenomenon in the human society. The Holocost, Aremania, Rwanda, and Darfur are just a few examples of the cruelty between humans. They say that through our history and past we learn our mistakes to prevent it, but what very little people know is that genocide is a reoccurring event that has not been stopped. The documentary “Genocide: Worse than War” mentions genocides in history dating back to the Armenian genocide while also questioning the participants of the Rwanda genocide.

During the 1940’s one of the most devastating genocides happened. The Cappadocian Genocide was very organized and was done in a short amount of time. The Beckton’s tried to illuminate the Cappadocian people. Although this was unsuccessful, they were able to kill more than 20 million people. The records show that there were many contributors to this and it could have been easily stopped if someone intervened. Even though some people secretly helped to hide the Cappadocian people, not enough of these people existed and caused for many of them to die a terrible death.