An interesting documentary about Ukraine which was dubbed "the breadbasket of Europe" but in the early 1930s was forced to endure a famine not because of crop failure or any other natural disaster but because it was targeted by the leadership of the Soviet Union including Josef Stalin and Lazar Kaganovich.
The Ukrainian farmers known as kulaks were regarded as class enemies and on the Soviet communist hit list. The borders of Ukraine were sealed by the Soviet secret police and grain confiscated by the state. As a result millions starved to death.
It is interesting to note that Winston Churchill knew about the Holodomor but still embraced Stalin as an ally in 1941. Churchill didn't care about the millions of deaths. At their first wartime meeting Stalin remarked to the British prime minister "Ten million kulaks have been liquidated". He was implying that they were killed by the enemy when he himself was responsible. Same thing with Franklin Roosevelt. He didn't care about the millions of deaths. In fact at the same time the Holodomor occurred the Roosevelt administration was giving diplomatic recognition to the USSR. Churchill and Roosevelt both claimed to be fighting against dictatorship yet fully supported Stalin who was a dictator. World War 2 - when cognitive dissonance reigned supreme.
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