On the Holodomor (05.04.2022)

Date
5 April 2022
Duration
8:25
Platform
YouTube

A short street dialogue by the channel’s author about the Holodomor. It mostly summarizes what is already known (its artificial character, the suppression of uprisings, Kazakhstan, ~4 million), but clearly articulates the economic motive: confiscated grain was exported to earn the hard currency needed to purchase Western equipment for industrialization. A pinpoint source for the article on the artificial nature of the Holodomor (the motive behind the grain confiscation).

Key moments

  1. 02:14 The Soviet myth from lectures: "there was no famine in 1932–33, it's an invention of Western media"
  2. 03:00 The reason — to suppress a potential peasant uprising through famine
  3. 06:03 The economic motive: grain exported for hard currency to fund industrialization

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