Christianity not class is why the Soviets starved the Ukrainians.
“Christianity not class is why the Soviets starved the Ukrainians.”
Make no mistake about it - this was genuine genocide against the Ukrainians as a nation.
The borders were closed off by the NKVD.
http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/famine_map.html
Stalin also tried to destroy its oral history ( the Kobzars were the internet of the day)
http://www.bandura.org/bandura_kobzari.htm
And the “famine” deaths to “Russians” outside of Ukraine were primarily Ukrainians and other exiled groups who refused to be Russified.
Finally, after killing as many Ukrainians as possible, they were replaced with Russians - genocide and ethnic cleansing.
http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:EICQARJbqPMJ:www.artukraine.com/famineart/kuhner.htm+holodomor+russians+ukrainians+ethnic+cleansing&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=17&gl=us&ie=UTF-8