From 1932 to 1933 Stalin and the Soviet secret police engineered an artificial famine in an attempt to crush Ukrainian resistance to Russian domination. Approximately 6 million Ukrainians d.ed as a result of the famine. In addition. Ukrainian dissident literature was destroyed. Ukrainian Bolsheviks were purged. and hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians were forcibly deported to Siberia. While conditions in the Ukraine temporarily improved under khrushchev. the Soviet regime under Brezhnev is returning to a period of repression reminiscent of the Stalin era. .nh current poicy of the Soviet Government is aimed at the Russifi ation of Ukraine and all republics under Soviet rule. The Soviets are seeking to obliterate all nonRussian cultural identities and languages.
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