Speech #980161336

Half a century ago. the Ukrainian peasantry. workers. and intellectuals refused to accept the collective yoke of the Moscowimposed dictatorship of the proletariat under Joseph Stalin. most especially the collectivization of their agriculture. The Ukrainians cherised the principles of private property and individual endeavor. In the fall of 1932. signs of famine hit the Ukraine. The Ukrainian diet soon consisted of only staple foods. Then an even stranger phenomenon occurred. Throngs of hungry people were forced to emigrate from their once fertile homeland. It became clear that Stalin had initiated a state robbery of the remaining food supply in retribution for Ukrainian resistance. Starvation was Stalins weapon.