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Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933
by Anne Applebaum
This book is about more than the years of the famine, the Holodomor. It gives thorough information about the systematic attacks on Ukraine and its people under Stalin’s rule. It is dense with information despite decades of repression & denial of the facts it contains. This was written after the 2014 Russian attacks but before the current Russian aggression toward Ukraine.
I found it really interesting that the person who coined the term “genocide” said that it applied here. Unfortunately that has become political because the UN made it a legal term, and the Soviet Union was the member state to say the term didn’t apply to nations. I wonder why…
CWs: starvation, political oppression, cannibalism
I found it really interesting that the person who coined the term “genocide” said that it applied here. Unfortunately that has become political because the UN made it a legal term, and the Soviet Union was the member state to say the term didn’t apply to nations. I wonder why…
CWs: starvation, political oppression, cannibalism