History Lesson

Like I have said in other posts, I do not stray from the entertainment topics unless I deem the subject important or somewhat historical. I will be the first to admit that I was that much of an history buff in my high school days but since the History Channel came along, my curiosity has gotten up about the events that have left their fingerprints on the pages of time.

Some history is enjoyable to read and some not so much, like, The Soviet famine of 1932-1933 that affected most major grain-producing agricultural areas of the Soviet Union, including Northern Caucasus, Volga Region, South Urals, West Siberia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine.The Communist governments of the Soviet Republics siezed grains from the peasantry and exported most of their Republic's agricultural output to the West in order to sustain the rapid economic transformation.

The term 'Golodomor' means the «mass hunger» or the «great hunger» that caused million of victims throughout the Soviet Union in 1932-1933. In order to politicize the issue of 'golodomor' and attract as much world's attention as possible, the word 'golodomor' have been transformed into 'holodomor' making it looks and sounds like 'holocaust', and therefore, could be considered as a genocide.

Scholars estimate about 6-8 million peasants deaths during the famine of 1932-1933; Central Russia - 2 million, Kazhastan - 1.7 million, Ukraine - 1.3 million, North Caucasus - 1 million.

History is full of these sad events but each time I stumble across something that I hadn’t known about, such as this, it just makes me wonder why we can’t just take care of each other?