90 years since the #Holodomor genocide. Soviet Russia starved millions of Ukrainians to death. Today Russia is waging a genocidal war against #Ukraine.
History matters. If people’s eyes are shut to past atrocities, there are no limits to committing new ones in the future. 1/2
Famines are political, as @TimothyDSnyder explains.
Take the time to watch this lecture about one of the worst chapters of history. Many don't even know about it because Russia suppressed it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dy7Mrqy1AY 2/2
@kajakallas I learned about it in the mid-late 1970s. I think it might have been mentioned in Solzhenitsyn that I read then.