15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
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The Soviets and Famines Are Political, Right?
"Famines are political. Very rarely do you confront a situation where a famine is a direct result of a physical lack of food," he says. "If famines are political, then that opens one's eyes to the possibility of how famines can be created in the present or in the future" The Soviet leaders thought everything should be yielding to politics, writes Frida Ghitis. But history was moving towards socialism and an elite party could push it forward, she adds.
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