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The great famine of 1932-1933 caused 4 million deaths in Ukraine. What was Stalin’s goal? What were his methods? Explanations.
By Francois-Guillaume Lorrain
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Lhen the Party secretary of the Kharkov region, Rodion Terekhov, who had complained of the famine reigning in Ukraine, was received in December 1932 by Stalin, the Vojd (guide) spoke to him more or less this way: “I have been told that you are a good speaker, but I see that you are also a good storyteller. You should give up your activities as general secretary and work for the Writers’ Union. You will write fables and fools will read to you. » Like countless Ukrainian colleagues, Terekhov lost his post and another was put in charge of collecting grain in Kharkov, where the Italian consul, quoted by Nicolas Werth in The Cemetery of Hope (Tempus, 2019), wrote then: “Those that are not swollen and offer a chance to recover are…
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