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19321932–1933 · Kyiv and the Ukrainian countryside

The Holodomor

The white Candle of Memory at the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv, with the domes of the Lavra behind
Photo: Andriy155. CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Stalin's forced collectivisation of farming and impossible grain quotas brought famine to Soviet Ukraine. In 1932–33 officials seized food from homes, blacklisted villages and stopped starving peasants from leaving to find bread. Millions died, most of them in the countryside. Denied by the Soviet state for decades, the famine is remembered each November and recognised as genocide by Ukraine and many other countries.

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Sites

  1. Site 1: National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide and Candle of Memory, KyivA white memorial tower, the statue of a starving girl and a museum below.Map ↗

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