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

The Making of Modern Ukraine

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What Matters Is the Story of the Famine

Within this worldview, it's very important to see that the individuals who actually exist in the world do not have any value. In this way of seeing the world, any particular individual doesn't really matter because what matters is where we're all going to get together. At some point, humanity is going to be restored to itself. That's everything, right? That is everything. The means, so it means their means are generally justified. And this has another implication for truth, which is really important when we talk about this famine. This famine is one of the blunter, bigger truths of the 20th century in European history,. But nevertheless extremely controversial, at least for decades.

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