Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has been celebrated throughout the West as a defender of liberal democracy fighting to repel the Kremlin’s attempt to restore the territorial integrity of the former Soviet Union. In describing Russia’s deliberate targeting of Ukrainian civilians and forced deportations, the Ukrainian president has often relied on the term “genocide” to describe the situation on the ground; a term that was echoed by President Biden before his administration clarified that the United States has not endorsed the term as its official position. While arguments can certainly be made both in favor and against defining Russia’s war of aggression as a genocidal act, policymakers must keep this in mind: it has happened before. Ukraine’s great famine, the Holodomor, reached its peak in spring 1933 and left at least 3.9 million Ukrainians dead. Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Communist Party caused those deaths by implementing policies that included the forced collectivization of farms, dekulakization — eliminating farmers who were slightly better off than their peers — and massive grain seizures. Growing involvement by the Party in Ukraine, as a result of Moscow’s intensifying grain requisitions, opened a window of opportunity for Stalin: weaponizing the famine to crush Ukrainian nationalism. During… Read full this story
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