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1. Carlos Done
Ms.Muller
3rd period Freshman Seminar
11 June 2012
“Ukrainian Genocide was dreadful premeditated by the Soviet Union,headed,by Joseph Stalin” (United
Human Rights”). It was sparked against kulaks (Ukrainian farmers), in 1932-1933. The Genocide
occurred in Ukraine. Stalin ordered a war on the kulaks a class of prosperous peasants, who resisted his
for collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union (“History Wiz”). The Communist Regime sought to
eliminate any threat from Ukrainian nationalists, whom they feared had the potential to form a rebellion
and to seek independence from the Soviet Union. Stalin regarded the self-sufficient farms of the
Ukraine peasants, as a threat to his ideals.
Moreover, the Soviet police took the Ukrainian farmers of their homes,livestock,wheat crops. Families
were starving during the Genocide. People who did not want to give their homes and crops,were
violently shot to death. Families who tried to escape,were killed. It sparked to make people afraid and
give everything that they had.
Prior to the Ukrainian Genocide there were many acts of discrimination and hate crimes. The Russians
caused serious bodily or mental harm to the Ukrainians. They deliberately inflicted on the Ukrainian
group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. They
imposed measures intended to prevent birth within the groups. As StanislavKulchytsky argues the
mechanism Stalin and the Communist Party of the USSR employed to deal with the Ukrainian
countryside while it was in revolt lifted the events in Ukraine out of the category of merely a famine and
into the realm of genocide. To him, the essence of the genocide was the requisitioning system employed
by the Kremlin leadership. In the fall of 1932, on orders from Moscow, government troops came to
villages requisitioning grains to meet Stalin’s quotas. At gunpoint they took away grain, even when
peasants did not have enough grain to feed themselves. Those peasants who had no grain to deliver
were deprived of any other food stocks they had, including garden vegetables and cattle. Those that
esisted were shot. When this policy of requisitioning grains at gunpoint was further enforced by sealing
off borders and thereby preventing the escape of famished peasants, the result was genocide("The
Ukrainian Holodomor â Was It a Genocide?
The Genocide in the Ukraine took place very quickly. As a result, a large number of successful
independent farmers flourished in Ukraine. Alongside these developments, there was also unleashed a
cultural renaissance in Ukraine, as writers, artists, and intellectuals flourished. Alas, these freedom were
not last for long. Stalin saw both the farmers and the cultural freedoms as a threat to the newly formed
Soviet Union. In the 1930’s, Joseph Stalin politically instigated and deliberately, wiped out the
Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church and it is clergy.
Many people died in the Ukrainian Genocide. At the peak of the genocide, which was in March 1933
according to Prof. Conquest, Ukrainians were dying at the rate of 25,000 per day, 1,000 per hour or 17

2. every minute. Estimates of the total deaths vary from 5 to 10 million but 7 million is the accepted figure.
This was almost one-quarter of the population of Ukraine. The children were especially devastated with
one estimate stating that "no fewer than three million children born between 1932 and 1933 died of
hunger." (M. Maksudov in Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933, Ed. by Roman Serbyn and BohdanKrawchenko,
Edmonton CIUS, 1986). One third of the children of Ukraine starved to death in the famine . The famine
in the Ukraine was not technically a genocide. Even when the Soviet archives was opened, no direct
order from Stalin could be found ordering the destruction of the Ukrainians as a people. The famine was
directed towards Stalin's political enemies- who he defined as 'kulaks'. This translated into any peasant
who resisted collectivization of agriculture. That said, the famine was mostly in the winter of 1932-33.
The number of dead range from 3.5 to 10 million people.
It was still a massive crime against humanity, one of the worst of the 20th century . It took years
for the Ukraine to recover. Russian settlers were ordered in to replace (and bury) the dead and to revive
the neglected farmlands. In 1941, during the Second World War, Germany invaded Ukraine, where they
too ruthlessly exploited the produce of the land and the workers who harvested it. Once again there was
substantial guerrilla resistance. At the end of the war, areas long held by Russia and Poland were at last
restored to Ukraine: all ethnic Ukrainian land was united in one Soviet republic. In the 1980s there was a
revival of Ukrainian nationalism; there was also a religious revival the communist government had
suppressed all Churches). In 1991 the Republic of Ukraine declared independence. The transition from
soviet-style government and economy to parliamentary democracy and capitalism began with difficulty
and still needs time to achieve.