During the times of the soviet union was ukrane allowed to be its own country in terms of language and culture. But then when stallen comes to power in 19 28, he sees the situation differently. He's trying to transform thesoviet union economically. In five short years his government carries out a policy called collectivization. Property was confiscated and parents were herded into collective farm. Suddenly, ukranian traditional village life has been wiped out by a famine which was totally preventable.