
15: Ukrainization, Famine, Terror: 1920s – 1930s
The Making of Modern Ukraine
Ukraine - It's Not a Party
Stalin wrote to Kaganovich, the chief thing now is Ukraine. Things in Ukraine are terrible. It's terrible in the party. They say that in two Ukrainian oblasts, I believe Kyiv and Nipropetrovsk, that around 50 Rijkolmih have spoken out against the grain requisitions plans. As soon as things get worse, these elements will not be slowed and open in front and without the party against the party. If we don't make an effort now to improve the situation in Ukraine, we may lose Ukraine. And actually, Pilsutsky is in the back of it with his hands on the marionettes running everything"
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