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  • : Seventy-five years after Soviet soldiers confiscated food from Ukrainian villagers as part of a famine that killed millions of people, Ukraine wants the world to recognize that what it calls the Holodomor was a deliberate act of genocide by Stalin's Soviet Union.

    Zimbabwe's Opposition: 2008

  • The issue has long been a sticking point in relations between Moscow and Kiev under the previous presidency of Viktor Yuchshenko who sought international recognition of the famine, or known in Ukraine under the term Holodomor, as genocide against the Ukrainian people.

    RIA Novosti 2010

  • Today Ukraine and Ukrainians of the whole world begin to commemorate the 75-th anniversary of a most terrible catastrophe, the famine known as Holodomor of 1932-1933.

    National Policy Institute 2009

  • In late 2006, Ukraine's parliament recognized the Stalin-era famine known as Holodomor as an act of genocide by the Soviet authorities.

    RIA Novosti 2009

  • In late 2006, Ukraine's parliament recognized the Stalin-era famine known as Holodomor as an act of genocide by the Soviet authorities.

    RIA Novosti 2009

  • Stalin's atrocities, which include the Ukrainian famine known as the Holodomor, the Great Purge of 1937-38, the gulag labor camps, mass deportations and executions, and the terror imposed on citizens of Russia and other captive nations, are on the same scale, if not far greater, than Hitler's.

    BitsBlog 2009

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    Wake Up From Your Slumber - The Truth Will Set You Free 2008

  • As noted above, the Ukrainian label attached to this is "Holodomor" - "death by hunger."

    RedState 2008

  • As noted above, the Ukrainian label attached to this is "Holodomor" - "death by hunger."

    RedState 2008

  • See also Robert Conquest, Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine New York: Oxford University Press, 1986, esp. 299–319, where Conquest estimates the death toll and the extent to which what the Ukrainians call the Holodomor was systematically ignored in the West.

    Deathride John Mosier 2010

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