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The Great Soviet Leap Backward: The Secret Famine

2022-06-25T11:19:26.532Z


STORY - The famines which affected the USSR in 1932-1933 left the memory of a deliberate genocide in Ukraine. They were part of the establishment of the planned economy and the desire to eliminate the “class” of the kulaks.


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Spring 1933. The horror of famine in Europe!

A famine such as the continent had not experienced in peacetime for decades.

Depopulated villages, whole families reduced to the state of emaciated corpses, saturated cemeteries, mass graves everywhere and even, too often, acts of cannibalism.

A famine… but secret, hidden, concealed behind the closed borders of the Soviet Union.

At most, the foreign press spoke of "

agricultural problems

" or "

dearth

linked to the vagaries of the weather when many Western politicians, writers or thinkers, admirers of the construction of communism, like the former President of the French Council Edouard Herriot or the British playwright and Nobel Prize winner George Bernard Shaw, denied…

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