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Originally Posted by aka123
That Georgian (Russian citizen by birth) seemed to have something against Ukraine's independence.
" in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5?7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates."
"Scholars disagree on the relative importance of natural factors and bad economic policies as causes of the famine but believe it was a long term plan of Joseph Stalin, an attempt to eliminate the Ukrainian independence movement"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor |
hmm, i remember learning this had to do with attempting to modernize soviet union industries.. however i can see how the independence issue would come into play