1/ To be honest, there are things the Soviet Union did that are ＊more＊ clearly definable as genocide than the Holodomor, such as the mass population transfer (i.e. ethnic cleansing) of the Chechens, in which an entire ethnic group, over 500,000 people, were rounded up and

2/ loaded onto cattle cars and “resettled” thousands of miles away, in a brutal, merciless process that may have killed between 25 and 50% of all of them along the way.

The 1933 famine, while clearly the fault of the Soviet government, did not exclusively affect Ukrainians.

3/ Millions of Russians and Kazakhs died too, and that’s kindof a crucial fact because Russians were the dominant ethnic group of the Soviet Union. If it’s affecting them too, it’s hard to argue this was an ethnically-targeted process of extermination.