A thread debunking the Holodomor myth.

"4 Million Kazakhs died during the Holodomor"

-Number of ethnic Kazakhs in 1926: 3,9 million

-More than 1 million Kazakh ex-kulaks tried to escape from the collectivisation, which made them virtually undetectable.

-Actual estimated number of deaths caused by starvation: 1,700

"Over 7,5 Million Ukrainians starved to death during the Holodomor"

-Population of Ukraine in the 1930's: ~30 million.

-Average annual deaths between 1927 and 1937: 500.000

-Annual deaths in 1933: 1,8 million

Actual Causes of the increase in the annual number of deaths ↓

A major outbreak of Malaria, Tifus and Wheat Leaf Rust in 1932 in the USSR

>6 million confirmed Malaria cases in the USSR

>200.000 Tifus cases in Ukraine alone

The consumption of wheat infected by the leaf rust lead to similar symptoms as starvation, mycotoxicosis and death.

"It was an genocide intended to weaken Ukrainian nationalism"

-Most of the govt admins of the UASSR were ethnic Ukrainians.

-Ukraine was a multiethnic area.

-The Soviet govt gave a total of ₽ 13.000.000 to the Ukrainian healthcare and social systems between 1929 and 1934.

There was a major famine during the 1930's in the agrarian areas of the USSR, like the KSSR, the UASSR or the Southern-Volga area.

But the actual causes of it were:
Wheat leaf rust
Drought (UA and KZ)
Deluge (Volga area)
Forest wildfires (Central & Southern RU)
Bad management

Another hefty factor was that of crop and cattle theft from the collective farms (Kolkhoz) by the farmers, who acted by the principle of "if it's not mine, it won't be anybody's"

Consequently, the drastic decline in the production of meat only aggravated the food shortage.

Additionally, this famine also affected Romania (including Moldova) and Poland, where there also was a general harvest failure due to the exact same climatic reasons. But that's an uncomfortable fact for the anti-Soviet rusophobic narrative.

Another major fact was that the KSSR and UASSR admins. didn't report the bad management of the collectivised goods on time, which made it difficult for the central govt. to react to the problem, so they kept exporting as much crops abroad as possible.

The factors that contributed to the food shortage, the crop failure, and the consequential deaths were multiple and interrelated.

Nonetheless, the number of people who died specifically of starvation estimates for hundreds of thousands of deaths, not millions.

The mentioned causes wouldn't have resulted in such a disaster by themselves, but combined, they caused a national catastrophe.

Stalin's govt reacted by:
-Investing in the affected healthcare systems
-Importing and distributing crops
-Developing and improving the Sovkhoz system

So, was there a famine in the USSR in the 1930's? Yes.

Was it a planned genocide of certain national minorities though? No.

It's really hard to count the actual number of deaths caused by starvation because of the deaths caused by the Mycotoxicosis, Malaria and Titus outbreaks.

Who exaggerated the number of deaths due to starvation and started the Holodomor myth?

-Austrian Nazi Joseph Goebbels said that 6 million people died of starvation in the USSR in 1933.

-Robert Conquest in his anti-communist book "The Great Terror"

Incredibly reliable sources

The propagation of lies about the 1930's famine is necessary for the current oligarchical governments of Ukraine and Kazakhstan in order to conceal the actual and systematic problems of their countries.

The USSR is the worst enemy of the post-soviet corrupt bourgeoisie.

Sources and further reading (RU):

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1y6AzixR1uj3RDCaa3PHERTCAi4ryY8bAUPUNu7lBqBk/mobilebasic