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Ukraine’s Genocide - Research Papers

Ukraine’s Genocide

In 1932, Soviet leader Josef Stalin unleashed genocide in Ukraine. Stalin determined to force Ukraine’s millions of independent farmers called “Kulaks” into collectivized soviet agriculture, and to crush Ukraine’s growing spirit of nationalism. Ukraine’s nightmare had begun in 1932. Faced by resistance to collectivization, Stalin unleashed terror upon Ukraine. Moscow dispatched 25,000 young party militants and earlier visions of Mao’s “Red Guards” to force 10 million Ukrainian peasants into collective farms. Secret police units of OGPU began selective executions of rebellious farmers. When Stalin’s red guards failed to make a dent in this immense number, OGPU was ordered to begin mass ...

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nothing came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and looted of food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold, and sickness. When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent Lazar Kaganovitch, to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovitch, the soviet Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian Nikita Khruschchev helped supervise the slaughter. The precise number of Ukrainians murdered Stalin’s custom-made famine and checka firing squads remains unknown to this day; six million other farmers across the USSR were starved during collectivization. Stalin told Churchill he liquidated ten million peasants during the 1930’s.
Ukraine genocide occurred 8-9 years before Hitler began the Jewish Holocaust, and was committed before the world’s gaze. But Stalin’s murder of millions was simply denied or concealed by a left wig conspiracy of silence that continues to this day. In ...

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Added: 11/21/2007 05:54:29 AM
Category: Miscellaneous
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