How Stalin starved Ukraine

 

In Ukraine, it’s become known as “the Holodomor,” meaning “death by starvation.” It was a genocide carried out by a dictator who wanted to keep Ukraine under his control and who would do anything to keep it covered up for decades. In the 1930s, Soviet leaders under Joseph Stalin engineered a famine that killed millions as they sought to consolidate agricultural power. In Ukraine, they used additional force as they sought to clamp down on a burgeoning Ukrainian national identity.

How is Stalin Taught in Russia?

Joseph Stalin was born in December 1878 to a Georgian family and served as the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union between 1922 and 1952.

A Show Trial With No Show Or Trial

In The 1930's after Joseph Stalin won his power struggle for  control of the Soviet Union over his rival Leon Trotsky.  Stalin felt a need to fully consolidate his control of government.  How do to that?  Show trials.   A series of trials were held in which those individuals or groups perceived as political rivals were put in the dock.  Even the though the evidence and witnesses against the accused was tainted it mattered not.  It was the spectacle that gave credence to the proceeding's allowing for the preordained outcome to be accepted. 

For the last week there has been a trial in the U.S. Senate for the removable of Donald Trump from office except there's been no show or trial.  One would think that Mitch McConnell having telegraphed the preordained outcome he would have at least put on a good show and provided phony evidence to help perpetuate the lie.