Mass murder

'Holodomor' is the term for the famine and deaths that occurred in the Soviet Ukraine during the winter of 1932-33. At least 2.5 million died, and maybe as many as 4 million perished. Stalins policy of collectivization is often blamed; some historians think Stalin deliberately withheld grain supplies, to break the spirit of nationalistic resistance to communism in Ukraine. Soviet authorities afterwards denied the Holodomor ever happened.