#Голодомор

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(c) Oleksiy Kustovsky

Holodomor Remembrance Day: Each year on the fourth Saturday of November Ukraine commemorates the victims of the mass artificial famines (Holodomor) of 1921-1923, 1932-1933 and 1946-1947, organised by the Soviet Union authorities, as a result of which the Ukrainian people lost millions of lives.

[tomorrowusa]

From  @Biz_Ukraine_Mag

Another indication that Putin is trying to bring back the Soviet Union in all but name. A statue (actually a bust) of totalitarian despot Joseph Stalin was dedicated this week in Volgograd.

While exact numbers are difficult to come by, Stalin was certainly in the same ballpark as Hitler in terms of mass murder and genocide.

Stalin was responsible for the 1932-1933 genocide in Ukraine known as the Holodomor. A brand new statue of Stalin, 215 miles/364 km due east of Ukraine, is a public demonstration of the state of Russia’s moral depravity.

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[echo-s-land]

Listen. Some gouvernements, even yours (mine does), might not consider Holodomor a genocide.

They didn't live it.

Ukraine and LOTS of east European countries call it one. They know how it was.

Listen to those who lived it

Listen to those who are living the atrocities

[nokahirsch]

О 16:00 поклади свічку пам‘яті. За всіх українців, які постраждали від Голодомору, геноциду нашого народу, скоєного руками москалів, які і зараз не можуть від‘*батися від нас. Пам‘ятаймо нашу історію і ніколи не забуваймо, куди має бути звернутий наш погляд 🇺🇦

[zmijivna]

Пам'ять що не згасне | A memory that will not fade

Today is the Day of Remembrance of the victims of Holodomor. On the fourth Saturday of November, Ukrainians honor the memory of the victims of the famine, which, among other things, was artificially created by the authorities of the Soviet Union on the territory of Ukraine in order to suppress Ukrainian resistance and destroy Ukrainian nation. In total, there were three famines in Ukraine - in 1921, 1932-33, and 1946. The Holodomor is recognized as the genocide of the Ukrainian nation.

In the evening, we light a candle as a symbol of memory. We will not forget the suffering and pain of these people. We remember them. And their story will not fade away as their lives did.

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Сьогодні  День пам'яті жертв голодоморів. У четверту суботу листопада Українці вшановують память жертв голоду, який серед іншого був штучно створений владою радянського союзу на теренах України задля придушення українського опору на знищення української нації. Всього в Україні було три голодомори - 1921-го, 1932-33-го, 1946-го років. Голодомор визнано геноцидом українької нації. 

Увечері ми запалюємо свічку, як символ памяті. Ми не забудемо страждання і біль цих людей. Ми памятаємо їх. І їх історія не згасне так як згасли їх життя. 

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Парламент Хорватії визнав Голодомор 1932-1933 років геноцидом українського народу

28 червня 2023 року Хорватський Сабор (Парламент Хорватії) одноголосно прийняв Декларацію про визнання Голодомору актом геноциду, вчиненого проти народу України радянським режимом у 1932–1933 роках. _________ On June 28, 2023, Croatian Parliament unanimously adopted a Declaration recognising the Holodomor as an act of genocide committed against the people of Ukraine by the Soviet regime in…

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[thesolyanka]

Вічна пам'ять всім українцям, закатованим, згвалтованим, замореним голодом, та вбитим московсько-російськими виродками.

Eternal memory to all Ukrainians, tortured, raped, starved, and killed by muskovian (russian) bastards.

[thelittleukrainianwell-armedgirl]

Holodomor Commemoration Day (26.11.2022). Infographic by Euromaidan Press

[tomorrowusa]

Today (it’s still March 5th in the Western Hemisphere) is the 70th anniversary of the death of Joseph Stalin.

The film “The Death of Stalin” is roughly a bit of Soviet history from a Monty Python type of perspective. The history may not exactly be stunningly accurate, but the portrayals do provide epigrammatic insight on the way things were done under communism.

The film is darkly hilarious. Two performances struck me as particularly good: Paddy Considine as a producer at Moscow Radio and Jason Isaacs as Marshall Zhukov. If I recall correctly, Paddy is mostly in the first half and Jason mostly in the second half of the film.

BTW: I’m sure it’s strictly coincidence, but Stalin died in March and the Korean War ended in July of 1953 with an armistice. A lesson for today? 🤔

Stalin is co-winner of Worst Person of the 20th Century along with Hitler. Among numerous other crimes, Stalin was responsible for the genocide against Ukrainians known as the Holodomor.

[zhitomir]

Голодомор 1932–1933 років: історія, факти та значення для українців

День пам’яті жертв голодоморів - це особлива дата в історії України, яка нагадує нам про одну з найжахливіших трагедій XX століття. Остання субота листопада стає днем скорботи, вшанування та гли... Читать дальше »

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Газета "Бучанські новини" № 41, 2024

Газета "Бучанські новини" № 41, 2024

Співпраця освітян з іншими громадами заради кращого навчання дітей, розвитку та інновацій – головна тема № 41. Із офіційних новин: ✅обрання Анатолія Федорука головою Київського регіонального відділення АМУ, ✅підготовка до опалювального сезону,

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Today is Holodomor Remembrance Day

It's an annual commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor, the 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Ukraine.

Traditionally, on this day Ukrainians attend memorial services and put up symbolic vessels of grain and light candles in memory of the victims of the Holodomor and other deadly famines in Ukraine.

Today in Ukraine, at the legal and legislative level, only the genocide of 1932-1933 has the status of "Holodomor". The events of 1921-1923 and 1946-1947 qualify as a mass famine, the genocidal nature of which has not been proven at the moment.

What Ukrainians ate to survive Holodomor

(translated excerpts from an Історична Правда article): + images source

The villagers would dig up the holes of the polecats to find at least a handful of grain hidden by these animals. They pounded it in a mortar, added a handful of oilcake (from hemp seed), beetroot, potato peelings, and baked something from this mixture.

Those who managed to hide at least a little grain would grind it in iron mills made from wheel axles and cook "zatyrukha" (a concoction made from a small amount of flour ground from ears of grain).

Acacia flowers were boiled and eaten raw, and green quinoa was mixed with crushed corn cobs. Those who could - and this was considered lucky - added a handful of bran. This food made their feet swell and their skin crack.

The peasants dried the husked ears of corn and millet husks, pounded them, ground them with weeds, and cooked soups and baked pancakes. Such dishes were impossible to chew, the body could not digest them, so people had stomach aches. Pancakes, the so-called "matorzhenyky", were made from oilcake and nettle or plantain.

It went so far that peasants would crumble straw into small chips and pound it in a mortar together with millet and buckwheat chaff, and tree bark. All this was mixed with potato peelings, which were very poisonous, and this mixture was used to bake "bread", the consumption of which caused severe stomach diseases.

There were cases when village activists took away and broke millstones, mortars, poured water on the heat in their ovens. After all, anything found or saved from the food had to be cooked on fire, and matches could only be purchased by bartering for their own belongings or by buying them in the city, which was impossible from villagers that were on "black lists".

Chestnuts, aspen and birch bark, buds, reed roots, hawthorn and rose hips, which were the most delicious, were used as food substitutes; various berries, even poisonous ones, were picked; grass seeds were ground into flour; "honey" from sugar beets was cooked, and water brewed with cherry branches was drunk. They also ate the kernels of sunflower seeds.

Newborns had the worst of it, because their mothers had no breast milk. According to testimonies, a mother would let her child suck the drink from the top of the poppy head, and the child would fall asleep for three days.

In early spring, the villagers began to dig up old potato fields. They would bake dumplings from frozen potatoes, grind rotten potatoes in a mash and make pancakes, greasing the frying pan with wheel grease. They also baked "blyuvaly" (transl. "vomities") from such potatoes and oatmeal mixed with water, which was so called because they were very smelly.

They ate mice, rats, frogs, hedgehogs, snakes, beetles, ants, worms, i.e. things that weren't a part of food bans and had never been eaten by people before. The horror of the famine is also evidenced by the consumption of spiders, which are forbidden to kill in Ukrainian society for ritual reasons.

In some areas, slugs were boiled into a soup, and the cartilaginous meat was chopped and mixed with leaves. This prevented swelling of the body and contributed to survival. People caught tadpoles, frogs, lizards, turtles, and mollusks. They boiled them, adding a little salt if there was salt. The starving people caught cranes, storks, and herons, which have been protected in Ukraine for centuries, and their nests were never destroyed. According to folk beliefs, eating stork meat was equated with cannibalism.

The consumption of horse meat began in 1931, before the mass famine. People used to take dead horsemeat from the cemeteries at night, make jelly out of it and salt it for future use.

Dead horses were poured with carbolic acid to prevent people from taking their meat, but it hardly stopped anybody. Dead collective farm pigs were also doused with kerosene to prevent people from dismantling them for food, but this did not help either.

After long periods of starvatiom, the process of digestion is very costing for the human body, and many people who would eat anything would drop dead immediately out of exhaustion.

If a family had a cow hidden somewhere in the forest, they had a chance to survive. People living near forests could hunt/seek out berries and mushrooms, but during winter this wouldn't save them. People living near rivers could fish in secret, but it was banned and punishable by imprisonment/death.