15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
The Meaning of Human Life and the Way That Human Life Ends
In many villages, the tremendous majority of colecoas that's collective farm, workers and their families are starving. And among them are many who are sick and swollen as a result of hunger. In a series of cases, no help has given them since there are no reserves whatsoever. People die every day. But it's inherently hard to think about. It's even the number 4 million is hard to thought about. Unless you've had very specific kinds of life experiences, the idea of one person starving to death is also very difficult to thinkabout. The authorities in Ukraine knew exactly what was happening. They were there watching it; they were there carrying it out. As humanists,
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