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The Holodomor Famine: Giving A Voice To The Victims

In her latest book, Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum tells the story of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian famine, known as the Holodomor. Drawing on archival material, as well as memoirs and oral history, Applebaum aims to recount the story “from the point of view of people who lived in it and lived through it.” Hromadske sits down with Anne Applebaum to discuss her new book, Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. Applebaum begins her story in 1917, when peasant resistance to the establishment of Soviet power in Ukraine “nearly led to the end of the whole revolution.” She argues that this experience shaped Stalin’s perception of Ukraine as an existential threat to Soviet authority. In the midst of a general famine orchestrated by Stalin across the Soviet Union in the early 1930s, he took the opportunity to “focus it on Ukraine” with an aim to “weaken Ukraine as a political entity.” Millions of Ukrainians died of starvation while others were killed during mass arrests. “I think there's no question that it was a genocide,” Applebaum says, weighing in on one of the most controversial aspects of the Holodomor story. Applebaum also believes the Holodomor provides key background for understanding events in contemporary Ukraine. “When [Putin] saw Ukrainians waving European flags on the Maidan in 2014 and shouting anti-corruption slogans and calling for rule of law, he saw that as a threat,” she says. “This was a threat to Russia, and not Russia as a country, but Russia meaning his regime.” She argues that Putin’s reaction, the annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine’s Donbas region, were prompted by this perceived threat. “The reason why he reacted that way is because he has inherited some of that fear of Ukraine,” Applebaum explains. “That Ukraine as a problem is not a minor problem, Ukraine is an existential problem for Russia.” Hromadske talks to Anne Applebaum, columnist for The Washington Post and author of Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine. This video was originally published on October 9th, 2017. Follow Hromadske International! Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Explained www.en.hromadske.ua Facebook:   / hromadskeinternational   Twitter: https://twitter.com/ YouTube: http://bit.ly/2uvfYct