Holodomor Голодомор |
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Starved peasants on a street in Kharkiv, 1933 |
Country | Soviet Union |
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Location | Central and eastern Ukraine |
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Period | 1932–1933 |
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Total deaths | 7.5 million - 13 million. |
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Relief | Foreign relief rejected by the State. Respectively 176,200 and 325,000 tons of grains provided by the State as food and seed aids between February and July 1933. |
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The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор, which means "murder by hunger") was a man-made famine that happened in Ukraine in 1932 and in 1933. It is also known as the Terror-Famine or Great Famine. At that time, Ukraine was a part of the Soviet Union. About seven million people starved to death in the Holodomor.