#politics #history #Ukraine #news
Germany declares Ukraine's Holodomor famine a genocide.
Every horrific crime against humanity should be recorded and acknowledged. Think about this:
- Holodomor. Deaths: Around 3.9 million Ukrainians.
My grandparents were Holodomor survivors. We have family stories about it. It affected even me (third gen). We remember. 🕯️
https://www.dw.com/en/germany-declares-stalin-era-holodomor-famine-in-ukraine-a-genocide/a-63944665
My grandparents saw trains sitting at the stations, full of rotting grain, confiscated from starving Ukrainians.
My father used to say that Ukraine is so fertile that the only hunger ever possible in Ukraine is men-made. There was no widespread hunger in the history of Ukraine recorded before or after soviets.
@rakshy and the Soviets were kind enough to continue pillaging their colonies' food harvests, shipping them on full trains to mother russia while people waited in lines for hours for a rationed piece of bread in the oppressed countries. That this practice, to a smaller degree than the Holdomor but with similar tactics, continued in plain sight for decades without a much of a peep from human rights groups is 🤯
#RussianColonialism
the famous Siege of Leningrad comes to mind. They claim the city was encircled by Germans for long enough to have inhabitants switch to cannibalism to survive, yet the ammo factory never stopped working and convoys of trucks were running uninterrupted, supplying the front with bullets and bringing in food for the bosses. The Germans actually left a humanitarian passageway to allow evacuation of civilians.
@Vonzales @peeppeepcircus
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"fun" facts about me.
It took my husband a year to convince be to watch Chernobyl by HBO. It took him ~2 months to convince me to finish the last episode.
It took me several joints of weed to go through it.
because I was triggered non-stop, I was angry, interrupting, and anxious. I fucking hate ussr to the bones. and I was born there.
@rakshy @Vonzales oh Chernobyl was so good, they got the details so well. Also exposed the evils of that system to a wider audience in the US. Remarkable, actually. Sorry you had to go through that. Glad others were able to witness it for the first time. It would be nice to learn lessons and not repeat the disasters of the past.
@peeppeepcircus @Vonzales oh, all that triggering thing is on me😅 I actually can confirm that that show is really *really* good. Highly recommend for anyone who is interested in that part of history! I salute HBO for extraordinary and important job ❤️