UKRAiNIAN Genocide 1932

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UKRAiNIAN Genocide 1932
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Pre-Genocide Days

• Under Lenin there was a loose grip on the
  Ukrainian economy
• This breath of independence started a revival
  among Kulaks
• -folk music, customs, language, orthodox religion
• Stalin abruptly put an end to this movement in
  order to reinforce a strong Soviet influence

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Who are the Kulaks

• Wealthy
• Owned 24 acres of land or more
• Employed farm workers
• Kulaks previously held political power and this
  posed a threat to Stalin

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Goals of the Famine

• break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant
• force them into collectivization.
• to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture
  that was occurring under approval of the
  communist government in Ukraine.

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Causes

1. Kulaks had 80 of a population controlling the
   Ukraine
2. Kulaks were in the way of rapid
   industrialization
3. A high grain quota was implicated by Moscow
   resulting in genocide.

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Starvation as a Tool

• 1932- Soviets raise the quota by 44
• This quota resulted in the inability of
  Ukrainians to feed themselves
• Soviet Police took stored up food, left farmers
  without anything.

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Starvation

• Starvation
• Ukrainian Communist asked Moscow for
• 1. a reduction in grain quota
• 2. Emergency food aid
• Under Soviet law no person could eat until quota
  was met
• A merciless war of attrition against peasants who
  refused to give up their grain.
• Execution for theft of grain
• Those who did not appear to be starving were
  often suspected of hoarding grain. Peasants were
  prevented from leaving their villages by the
  police and a system of internal passports.

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Ukraine looks for help
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Deaths

• 17 per minute
• 1,000 an hour
• 25,000 per day

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The West Looks The Other Way

• West adopted a passive attitude toward the
  famine,
• Franklin D. Roosevelt, even chose to formally
  recognized Stalin's Communist government
• negotiated a sweeping new trade agreement.
• admission of the Soviet Union into the League of
  Nations.

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The End Result

• By the end of 1933, nearly 25 percent of the
  population of the Ukraine, including three
  million children, had perished. The Kulaks as a
  class were destroyed and an entire nation of
  village farmers had been laid low. With his
  immediate objectives now achieved, Stalin allowed
  food distribution to resume inside the Ukraine
  and the famine subsided