亚洲网紅露点

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Holodomor

[ hoh-luh-duh-mawr, hoh-luh-duh-mawr; Ukrainian hoh-loh-doh-mawr ]

noun

  1. the Holodomor, a severe famine in Ukraine (1932鈥33), exacerbated by a series of punitive measures taken against the country by the Soviets and leading to the death of almost four million Ukrainians from hunger.


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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of Holodomor1

First recorded in 1930鈥35; from Ukrainian 丑辞濒辞诲尘贸谤 鈥渄eath by hunger, starvation,鈥 from 丑贸濒辞诲 鈥渉unger鈥 + mor 鈥渆虫迟别谤尘颈苍补迟颈辞苍鈥
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Notably excluded from the definition of genocide were political or class groups, at the insistence of the Soviet Union, which did not want its leaders hauled before tribunals for the Great Terror, the Holodomor in Ukraine, or other Stalin-era mass killings.

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The attack on Kyiv was carried out on the morning of Holodomor Memorial Day, which commemorates the manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933.

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The attack was carried out on the morning of Holodomor Memorial Day which commemorates the manmade famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933.

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During the trip Berset also visited Bucha where many civilians were killed in the early stages of the war and laid flowers at a memorial in Kyiv for the Soviet-era Holodomor, when millions of Ukrainian peasants starved to death.

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The attack was carried out on the morning of Holodomor Memorial Day which commemorates the man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine that killed millions of Ukrainians from 1932 to 1933, and is marked on the fourth Saturday in November.

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