At 9 am please join me & post a candle for Holodomor Remembrance Day.

[littlemissmartypants]

It will coincide with the moments of silence that the citizens of Ukraine will observe at 4 pm their time.

Today, November 26, 2022 is International and National (in Ukraine) Holodomor Remembrance Day.


This archive photo, released by the Sectoral State Archive of the Security Service of Ukraine, shows representatives of the committee for the confiscation of grain, Odesa Region, 1932. (Photo Credit: EuroMaidan Press)

Despite being ravaged by war and Russian aggression, the people of Ukraine will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor genocide this year snip...

The Holodomor was a man-made disaster, the result of the brutal dictatorship of Joseph Stalin ... Snip... (when) Ukrainians reflect on the Holodomor genocide, they remember millions of their ancestors—many of whom were just children—who died from starvation in Ukraine.
...Snip...
In most studies that have analysed the atrocity, the number of Ukrainians who died during the Holodomor is estimated to have ranged between 3.5 million and 7 million. Historical sources indicate that at its peak in the summer of 1933, an estimated 28,000 Ukrainians were dying of starvation every single day.
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More at the link.
https://www.kyivpost.com/then-and-now/everything-you-need-to-know-about-holodomor-remembrance-day.html

Learn more about it here...
https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor
https://cla.umn.edu/chgs/holocaust-genocide-education/resource-guides/holodomor#:~:text=Contemporary%20Soviet%20police%20archives%20contain,graves%20dug%20across%20the%20countryside.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Holodomor


Sculpture from the Holodomor Museum
https://holodomormuseum.org.ua/en/

Hat Tip to blue-wave.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1017786132

❤️ pants

[littlemissmartypants]

1. ...for Holodomor ...

[Glorfindel]

2. for Holodomor

[raging moderate]

3. For Holodomor:

[electric_blue68]

4. 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ Holodomor

(just saw this)

[littlemissmartypants]

5. Cool candles, electric_blue68. I know you tried your best. ❤️

[electric_blue68]

22. Ty. I didn't see it bc I hadn't looked on line yet.

(I'm 2nd Gen half Ukrainian-American and I didn't even know about it till ? early '00s plus)

[mcar]

6. Mr. Jones

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6828390/

We watched this movie about Holodomor a few months ago. What happened in Ukraine was genocide, pure and simple.

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Very cool. Thanks, mcar. ❤️

[yellowdogintexas]

29. it's on Prime, per IMDB

I will have to watch it.

[2naSalit]

7. ...

I had heard of this over time but never enough to understand it all, until earlier this year. I watched some docu's about it... one of Stalin's greatest crimes against humanity.

Apparently, nothing has changed since then.

The people of Ukraine will be re-inspired by this celebration. Their resounding message to the aggressor is, "FUCK YOU!" since this really is nothing new for them regarding that country of orcs.

[paleotn]

8. ................

Never forget.

On this topic, fictionalized take on a true story of Gareth Jones, available on Netflix. The world knew and did nothing. "Workers Paradise" sycophants in the West refused to accept the truth or simply didn't give a shit, claiming some "greater good." Self delusion knows no political bounds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gareth_Jones_(journalist)

https://www.garethjones.org/

&ab_channel=BritFlicks

[littlemissmartypants]

11. Thanks, paleotn. ❤️

[bronxiteforever]

9. ...for Holodomor...

[pandr32]

12. Putin wants to starve them to surrender.

Of course, he's also trying to freeze them, too.

[grantcart]

17. And why they can never surrender because he is likely to follow Stalin's example if

Putin had the opportunity.

[mountain grammy]

13. Never forget.

[NNadir]

14. Thank you. My neighbors when I was growing up were refugees from the Holodomor.

They didn't speak very fluent English; the owners of the house next door were their daughter and their son-in-law. I used to call them "Grandpa" and "Grandma." They used to give me Soviet Stamps for my stamp collection, and were otherwise very nice to me. When I was a small child, "Grandpa" used to take me for walks in the woods and tell me stories, in his broken English, of how he spoke to "the wolf" that he told me lived in the woods, to make sure that the wolf understood not to eat the children in the neighborhood. More than 60 years later, I still recall those walks as a kind of magic, a fairy tale that I was protected by my elders.

Perhaps there was a deeper meaning in his mind.

They never talked much about Ukraine; again their English wasn't good. "Grandpa" drank himself to death in his 70s; the last time I visited home, "Grandma" was over 100 years old.

One thing I noticed about them, even as a small child, is that they always maintained, carefully and diligently, a vegetable garden in the small backyard of their house - we lived in post WWII tract housing. The last I saw "Grandma" she was working that garden, at an age well over 100, a bandana placed over her head, her small frail body bent over to weed the cabbage patch.

I didn't understand the context of their lives when I was growing up. I was well into my 20s before I learned of the Holodomor when reading histories. Slowly, as a man, I grasped what they must have gone through.

It is one of the terrible tales of history. I understand Stalin sold the grain to buy machine tools for the industrialization of the Soviet Union. I believe he bought the bulk of them from Germany.

Thank you for pointing out this important history. We forget at our peril.

[littlemissmartypants]

24. You're welcome, Nadir.❤️

[1WorldHope]

15. We must stop narcissistic asshats from acquiring power.

[MineralMan]

16. Here's mine.

[littlemissmartypants]

25. Thanks, MM. ❤️

[yellowdogintexas]

18. I recently read a book about the Holodomor, The Memory Keeper of Kyiv

I felt like I was there, in the cold with the characters.

Their resilience in hoarding food, foraging in the forests, and hiding their livestock enabled many to survive.

I highly recommend it.

[littlemissmartypants]

27. Thanks for sharing this, yellowdogintexas. ❤️

[Calculating]

19. Russia is/was every bit as bad as Nazi Germany

I honestly think we shouldn't have helped them against the Nazis, they were meant for each other. Stalin was just as bad as Hitler in ways.

[wnylib]

20. .

[Wild blueberry]

21. ....

[Cha]

23. 🤷‍♂️💕

[littlemissmartypants]

26. ❤️

[Cha]

28. 🕊🕯❤️

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