However. what is often not discussed when we endeavor to recall the era leading to World War II is the great hardship visited on the people of Ukraine by the Soviet government. Our great depression is often called the greatest crisis of modem capitalism. The famine of the 1930s in Ukraine has been called the first great tragedy of modem absolutism. I have learned of this tragedy from people in my district who remember this terrible event. They are the descendants of Ukrainian immigrants to Chicago. people who lost relatives under the oppression of Joseph Stalin. They remember the stories their parents told of the great famine just as many Americans remember the stories their parents told about the great depression. What is important then is that we not forget.
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