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	Canadian InfoUkes Website "Features"
	The InfoUkes Website from Canada features a considerable amount of outstanding material about the Famine/Genocide In Ukraine 1932-1933. ArtUkraine encourages you to take a look at InfoUkes. InfoUkes, www.InfoUkes.com, Features Section "The Artificial Famine/Genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933" INTRODUCTION: "A Man-Made Famine raged through Ukraine, the ethic-Ukrainian region of northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River region in 1932-1933. This resulted in the death of between 7 to 10 million people, mainly Ukrainians. This was instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his henchman Lazar Kagonovich. The main goal of this artificial famine was to break the spirit of the Ukrainian farmer/peasant and to force them into collectivization. The famine was also used as an effective tool to break the renaissance of Ukrainian culture that was occurring under approval of the communist government in Ukraine. Moscow perceived this as a threat to a Russo-Centric Soviet rule and therefore acted to crush this cultural renaissance in a most brutal fashion. In 1932, the Soviets increased the grain procurement quota for Ukraine by 44%. There were aware that this extraordinarily high quota would result in a grain shortage, therefore resulting in the inability of the Ukrainian peasant to feed themselves. Soviet law was quite clear in that no grain could be given to feed the peasants until the quota was met. Communist party officials with the aid of military troops and NKVD secret police units were used to move against peasants who may be hiding grain from the Soviet government. Even worse, an internal passport system was implemented to restrict movements of Ukrainian peasants so that they could not travel in search of food. Ukrainian grain was collected and stored in grain elevators that were guarded by military units and NKVD secret police units while Ukrainians were starving in the immediate area. The actions of this Moscow instigated action was a deliberate act of genocide against the Ukrainian peasant. These series of pages are intended to educate the general populace about this little known event in Ukrainian history. InfoUkes hopes to add to this series of pages over time." InfoUkes Table of Contents: Black Famine In Ukraine 1932-33: A Struggle for Existence By Andrew Gregorovich, Forum: A Ukrainian Review, No. 24, 1974 Famine Film: "Harvest of Despair" By Leonard Klady, Forum: A Ukrainian Review, No. 61, Spring 1985 The Last Stand of the Gamine-Genocide Deniers By Roman Serbyn, The Ukrainian Canadian, February 1989 Coming to grips with the Ukrainian famine-genocide By Roman Serbyn, The Link, December 5th, 1988 Ukrainian Famine debate heats up By Roman Serbyn, The McGill Daily, December 1st, 1988 Denied, Defiled, Or Ignored-The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-33 Fifty Years Later, by Orysia Tracz Famine-Genocide Deniers (Revisionists) Bibliography on the Ukrainian Famine The Ukrainian Weekly on the Great Famine of 1932-33 in Ukraine Other Ukrainian Famine Links Document URL: http://www.infoukes.com/history/famine/index.html E-Mail: webmaster@infoukes.com InfoUkes Inc. Suite 185, 3044 Bloor Street West Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada M8X 2Y8 Tel: 416 236 4865, Fax: 416 766 5704

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