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15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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The History of the Famine

Bolshevists in the 1920s and 1930s took for granted that a whole groups of people who exist on the earth will soon not exist anyway. So if they cease to exist a few years earlier or a few years later, that's not your fault, right? It doesn't really mean anything, whether they cease to existence at one point or another. Then you're going to look differently upon the deaths of millions of peasants than you would otherwise,. because that group is doomed anyway, as you see it.

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