From the Holodomor to Putin (15.03.2024)
A street video debate by the channel’s author explaining the MOTIVE behind the Holodomor: the man-made famine of November 1932 – February 1933 as terror aimed not at “destroying Ukrainians” in general, but at suppressing Ukrainian uprisings against collectivization (the most numerous in the USSR), because Stalin regarded Ukrainian nationalism as the main threat. It covers the mechanism (surrounding villages, seizing all food and seed grain, dekulakization carried out in parallel) and the concept of genocide (Raphael Lemkin). The second video source for the article on the man-made character of the Holodomor — it adds the cause and the intent.
Key moments
- 05:50 The Holodomor — terror by famine, to keep Ukraine from rising up
- 06:06 Collectivization of 1929–30 → peasant uprisings, the largest in Ukraine
- 07:28 Stalin: Ukrainian nationalism is the main threat to the USSR
- 09:00 November 1932 – February 1933: villages surrounded, everything confiscated, even from the oven and the seed grain
- 13:07 Dekulakization: three categories (execution / deportation / resettlement)
- 17:14 The concept of genocide; Raphael Lemkin and the Ukrainian famine