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The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin take power in Russia.
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The Soviet Union is formed with Ukraine becoming one of the republics.
Soviet Union propoganda film
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Lenin passes away, Joseph Stalin becomes leader.
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Stalin introduces a program
A program that forces farmers to give up their private land, equipment and livestock, and join state owned, factory-like collective farms. Stalin decides that collective farms would not only feed the industrial workers in the cities but could also provide a substantial amount of grain to be sold abroad, with the money used to finance his industrialization plans.
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Many Ukrainian farmers refuse to join collective farms
Stalin introduces a policy of "class warfare" in the countryside in order to break down resistance to collectivization. Eventually anyone who resists collectivization is considered a kurkul.
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1.5 million Ukrainians die
due to Stalins "dekulakization" policies. Armed forces in the country confiscater land, livestock and other property and evict families.
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Production Quotas increased
so high, that they could not be met. This creates Starvation in the country.
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Decree implemented
that calls for arrest of execution of anyone, including children who are caught taking any little amount of food product for their families to eat
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More Ukrainians are dying
at the rate of 30,000 a day. with one third of that being children who are under the age of ten
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4 million total, are dead.
between 1932-1934 that are attributed to starvation in the country. Not including execution and deaths from other causes.
Source: Holodomorct.org
