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Subscribe to RSSUkrainians light candles next to a monument to victims of the Great Famine in Kiev on Nov. 24, 2012. The dreadful famine that engulfed Ukraine, the northern Caucasus, and the lower Volga River area in 1932-1933 was the result of Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization. More than five million Ukrainians were killed in the famine.
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This was Stalin's attempt to destroy the Ukrainian people as a nation and politically with estimates of up to 3-4 million people. It has been called a Holocaust and genocide recognized by 26 nations.