What do you think about the Holodomor in Ukraine? Does it qualify as an act of genocide?
Stalin instituted policies that transformed the Soviet Union from an agrarian to an industrial economy in the early 1930’s. Stalin wanted to make the transformation in a ridiculously short time, with no regard for the cost to the people. He needed to buy factory equipment to equip his new factories. All of that equipment was made in Western Europe and America, who would not accept the fiat money of the Soviet Union. The only way to get hard currency was to sell something to the West – and all the Soviet Union had was grain and other agricultural products. Stalin set new quotas so high that the farms and villages were stripped of food – nothing for seed grain, nothing to feed the local people. The result was widespread famine across all of the soviet union, but concentrated more in the agricultural areas of Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and south-west Russia. Between 1931 and 1933 as many as 40 million people were affected; as many as 10 million people died in Ukraine alone. Stalin sold all of t
