Papers On Ukrainian Genocide

History is a phenomenon that has the propensity to repeat itself. Genocides have been committed throughout history, even before the term was assembled in 1944 and accepted by the United Nations in 1946 as a crime under international law. According to the United Nations, genocide is defined as “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group.” A minimum of twenty-seven genocides have been documented across the world. During the 20th century, the Armenian Genocide and the Ukrainian genocide (Holodomor) transpired. Currently, in the 21st century, the world is witnessing another brutal genocide occurring in Myanmar. A kindred pattern of events is perceived throughout the duration of genocides along with

Holodomor occurred during 1932-1933, but corrupt events and poor leadership led up to the famine and starvation. Vladimir Lenin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924, declared Ukraine as an independent nation. Sadly, the new country’s government was very unstable and could not withstand. So, the country became a part of the Soviet Union once again. As a result of getting a taste of independence, a new pride and patriotism rose among the Ukrainians along with a political elite group. Joseph Stalin, who rose to power in 1924, saw that this wave of nationalism in Ukraine as a threat. So Stalin set up a new form of economic production called collectivism. Collectivism is where individual farmers were

Hated has always been part of human nature, it is an inevitable emotion that can consumes the souls of men. The genocide in Ukraine during the early 1900s caused incredible suffering. Referred to as Holodomor which translates to killing by hunger, the Ukrainian starvation was a man made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Ukraine and the traditional Cossack territories starved to death due to Stalin’s government seizing of crops resulting in the countries denial of the genocide and even cannibalism.

The Armenian Genocide also referred as the Armenian Holocaust was a horrific act done by the Turkish Ottoman government to exterminate and kill many Armenians. Millions of Armenians lost their lives due to this event and Turkey refutes that any event ever happened or occurred. The start of the genocide took place in April 24 1915 where the ottoman empire took many Armenian leaders to eventually murder them. The event was carried out during and after World War 1. The genocide was implemented in two phases which where the wholesale killing of the male population, then the death marches of the children and women leading to starvation because their food and water were deprived as well as their dignity since they raped and robbed them. There were

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.

The events that happened during the Armenian genocide was very disturbing as to why and how it happened. For the Armenians it was mainly the women and kids who were forced to be converted to islam. Another measure of the genocidal process is deleting all traces of the population who have been massacred or driven away by such deportations. Women were raped and sold in slave

The Ukraine is known as the breadbasket of Europe. So, it is difficult to picture a continent such as this having people who would starve to death. But by the order of the dictator Stalin this is an event that indeed took place---a “silent holocaust” which caused the death of more than 10 million Ukrainians. This was a mass killing without bullets, guns, or executions but by slow painful starvation. This event called “Holodomor” literally means “death by hunger.” While the definition of genocide would come many years later, this atrocity surely fits the definition.

Genocides must be acknowledged as historical affairs, denial and crimes committed without proper justice, will only allow for more lives to be lost. According to the article Behind the Bloodshed, “Small killings such as bombings, shootings, terrorist attacks, and homicides happen about every two weeks in America alone” (“Behind”). The Newtown School shooting in Connecticut, the movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado, the Boston marathon bombing, or the Virginia Tech public shooting in 2007, all these catastrophes are recognized today even though the amount of victims ranges from 5 to 35. Now 1.5 million died in the Armenian mass killing but the Turks refuse to endorse responsibility for their actions and most of the world ignores what happened and refuses to educate students

Prior to taking this class, Information Literacy and Research Skills, I had not given much thought to the Armenian Genocide. I knew it had happened roughly a hundred years ago and I knew that it was somewhat monumental. However, thanks in part to the horrific nature of holocaust during World War II, learning of the Armenian Genocide was ultimately overshadowed. Alas, thanks to chance, my knowledge of the Armenian Genocide grew nearly exponentially.

The Genocide has been described as a mass killing of people. In which has been occurring since the early nineteenth century. This paper will explain the problems and severity of the Genocide in Germany compared to the Genocide against the Armenians. Like the Jewish, the Armenians also underwent the worst massacre in history. This dialogue goes into detail how the Jewish and the Armenians undergo the same treatment.

Approximately one and a half million Armenians were killed from 1915-1923. The remaining part was either Islamized or exiled.” The Armenian Genocide was a horrific event that caused the Armenians to have a major loss in population. From this, the Armenians should have been given reparations, but were not and that still affects them to this day.

Under Stalin, the desire for independence became a death sentence. According to the part of a documentary in which the segment was titled “Ukrainian famine 1933”, much of Ukraine’s economy was based on the individual farming land that was owned by kulaks or wealthy farmers, a name given by Soviet Union. When Russian government demanded that the farming land be given to it, it caused a resistance from the farmers and peasants of the nation. Under Stalin, the Soviet Union declared the kulaks as the enemy of the government and forced them to not only give up their land and livestock but also to be relocated in remote areas Siberia. This fate was not only written to the wealthy famers but to any person that defied the Russian government. They began to kill those that showed open defiance. In order to control any further resistance, Soviet Union increased its demand for grain from the Ukraine. During this period, the nation was facing a drought so they were already limited to the amount of grain that could be given to the government. As Soviet Union continued to demand more and more grain from the nation, the nation did not have food to support itself. According to the article titled “Famine in Ukraine after Second World War”, it states the grain was given to “various European countries in order to forestall their reliance on imports from the United States. In 1946 the Soviet Union shipped 1.7 million tons of grain to Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Finland,

It is an area of knowledge that is misunderstood frequently because it is so vast and complex. This quote, “… for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience… in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid “ (Livy) I believe puts history into perspective for the purpose of this essay. One of the more historically relevant events is the Armenian Genocide. This is a tragic example of a human experience that should have been taken as a warning. This genocide was unethical on the basis of preservation and well -being of human life. It is a significant event that was only recognized early last year in 2015, which is quite shocking due to the scale of the massacre. This mass annihilation took place from 1909 to 1918 where 1.5 million Armenians were sent to their death on a march to the Syrian Desert (A&E Television Networks). The insufficient amount of knowledge we have been provided with about this event greatly affects the value we place upon the knowledge we have now. The 29 countries that now recognize the mass killing as a genocide now have a shared knowledge about it and is acknowledged amongst many historians and genocide scholars around the world (Wikimedia Foundation). This genocide was not recognized until recently, and in consequence, influenced the extent of my personal knowledge and in

Ukraine is known to be one of the smallest Eastern European countries. Though small in size, respectively, the country can make up for in nationalism, and pride. The country is known to be the “bread-basket” (Ukrainian National Museum, 2015) of Europe. Ukrainians built a prosperous civilization, which in turn attracted invasions from Mongols, Poles, Lithuanians, and lastly the

The genocide happened between 1932 and 1933, a mere 15 years after the Russian revolution, and two years after Stalin came to power.