Cea mai mare tragedie umana

HOLODOMOR :  Extermination by Hunger

The famine-genocide of Ukraine, 1932-1933. In the spring of 1933, the rural population of Ukraine, its peasants, were dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, half of them children. The land that was known worldwide as the breadbasket of Europe was being ravaged by a man-made famine of unprecedented scale. It was engineered by Stalin and his hangmen, to teach Ukraine’s independent farmers  “a lesson they would not forget” for resisting collectivization, which meant giving up their land and livestock to the state. (Ukraine was then under Soviet domination).  Moreover, it was meant to deal “a crushing blow” to any national aspirations of the Ukrainian people, 80 percent of whom were peasant farmers.

In less than 18 months, this famine genocide took the lives of up to 10,000,000 innocent men, women and children in Ukraine and in the mostly ethnically Ukrainian areas of the northern Caucasus.  Meanwhile, the Soviet Union was denying the famine, and exporting millions of tons of grain from Ukraine – enough to have fed the entire population.

The purpose of this website is twofold:
• To serve as a portal to information about the Holodomor: it’s tragic history and it’s great relevance to today’s world.

• To describe the work of the Connecticut Holodomor Awareness Committee, and how we can help educators and civic organizations host an event as part of your human rights, current awareness, history, or other educational programming.
Only by understanding the genocides of the past, can we hope to prevent others from occurring in our lifetime.