Ukrainian Genocide Analysis
The Ukrainian Famine Genocide
Background
In 1922, Ukraine assisted in founding the USSR and joined it as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR). At the time, the leaders of the USSR became aware that the people of Ukraine greatly resented their new regime. To indirectly pacify this resentment, the leasers in Moscow permitted a great amount of local autonomy in the UkSSR. This was to prevent uprising and instability in their newly founded Soviet Republic.
The genocide When Joseph Stalin came to power in 1924, he wanted to merge all areas of the USSR, as well as a greatly strengthen its industrial base. To do this he decided to introduce a “policy of collectivisation of agriculture against the will of the rural population in Ukraine” …show more content…
Clever political manoeuvres by Stalin made him dictator of the USSR, after which he “launched a series of five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower”. As stated before, this involved his government taking full control of the country’s economy and collectivising all Soviet farms. Any farmer in Ukraine who rejected cooperation with the agrarian collectivisation scheme were shot or exiled.
Stalin is thought to have wanted to “create more industry and industry in the east” by turning the USSR’s peasants into industrial workers. Although Stalin’s core motivations are unknown, he hinted at it when he said, “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make up this gap in ten years. Either we do it or they will crush us.”. This is hinting that he wanted his union to become an advanced global superpower to ensure other countries did not take …show more content…
They carefully patrolled the borders to ensure no witnesses would escape, turning back 200, 000 Ukrainian peasants from crossing the border. The Soviet representatives at the time even stated that “there is no famine…You must take a longer view. The present hunger is temporary. In writing books you must have a longer view. It would be difficult to describe it as hunger.” Stalin imposed a law criminalising speaking of the famine, with a punishment of five years in a Siberian Labour Camp. They continued to deny the famine in this way until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in
Background
In 1922, Ukraine assisted in founding the USSR and joined it as the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR). At the time, the leaders of the USSR became aware that the people of Ukraine greatly resented their new regime. To indirectly pacify this resentment, the leasers in Moscow permitted a great amount of local autonomy in the UkSSR. This was to prevent uprising and instability in their newly founded Soviet Republic.
The genocide When Joseph Stalin came to power in 1924, he wanted to merge all areas of the USSR, as well as a greatly strengthen its industrial base. To do this he decided to introduce a “policy of collectivisation of agriculture against the will of the rural population in Ukraine” …show more content…
Clever political manoeuvres by Stalin made him dictator of the USSR, after which he “launched a series of five-year plans intended to transform the Soviet Union from a peasant society into an industrial superpower”. As stated before, this involved his government taking full control of the country’s economy and collectivising all Soviet farms. Any farmer in Ukraine who rejected cooperation with the agrarian collectivisation scheme were shot or exiled.
Stalin is thought to have wanted to “create more industry and industry in the east” by turning the USSR’s peasants into industrial workers. Although Stalin’s core motivations are unknown, he hinted at it when he said, “We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make up this gap in ten years. Either we do it or they will crush us.”. This is hinting that he wanted his union to become an advanced global superpower to ensure other countries did not take …show more content…
They carefully patrolled the borders to ensure no witnesses would escape, turning back 200, 000 Ukrainian peasants from crossing the border. The Soviet representatives at the time even stated that “there is no famine…You must take a longer view. The present hunger is temporary. In writing books you must have a longer view. It would be difficult to describe it as hunger.” Stalin imposed a law criminalising speaking of the famine, with a punishment of five years in a Siberian Labour Camp. They continued to deny the famine in this way until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in