To stay silent and listen… (the Holodomor of 1932–1933) (05.08.2023)
A street video debate by the channel’s author with an opponent who denies the man-made nature of the Holodomor. The key point: distinguishing the natural famine of 1921–22 from the man-made famine of 1932–33 (the 1931 harvest was good, so the cause was not natural but the policy of the party and Stalin), the Kazakhstan parallel, and the academic basis of the denied subject (the U.S. Congress Commission of 1988, James Mace, Stanislav Kulchytsky). The first video source for the article on the man-made nature of the Holodomor.
Key moments
- 15:37 The opponent's myth: "there was no Holodomor", a man-made famine supposedly a fabrication
- 15:51 Famine was everywhere, but the Holodomor was man-made, not from natural causes
- 16:04 The 1921–22 famine — natural causes (drought) + Bolshevik actions; it is not called the Holodomor
- 16:24 1931 had a good harvest — the famine of 1932–33 was caused solely by the actions of the party and Stalin
- 16:47 The same policy in Kazakhstan (the "Asharshylyk") — up to half the population
- 17:11 The opponent confuses the Holodomor with the Volga famine of 1921–23
- 18:00 Sources: the U.S. Congress Commission (1988), James Mace, Stanislav Kulchytsky, Hennadii Yefimenko