Jacques Julliard is editorial writer for the weekly "Marianne"
Few French people know the word “Holodomor”.
It is a Ukrainian term which indicates the extermination by the hunger, such as known it the country, as well as Kuban and Kazakhstan, in 1932-1933, and which made according to estimates between 2,5 million and 6 million dead.
The figure most often used is that of 4 million.
Almost the equivalent of the Holocaust.
Thus the Holodomor is to the Ukrainian people what the Holocaust is to the Jewish people.
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Most historians, following Robert Conquest, agree in considering that such a famine, in a region which is the breadbasket of Europe, is the result of a voluntary decision by Stalin, who deliberately punished Ukrainians for having repeatedly revolted against Bolshevik totalitarianism.
Within the framework of the forced collectivization of agriculture (the Great Turning - 1929-1933), the requisitions were brought by Stalin to such a level that he deprived…
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