Harvest Of Despair Documentary Analysis

There are no words to describe the sorrow I felt while watching the “Harvest of Despair” Documentary. Until this day, the knowledge of this Ukrainian genocide was never brought to my attention. This fact is horrifying in itself because not only is America not acknowledging what happened, but according to the documentary, the western European nations also do not acknowledge that this happened. How do we, as human beings intend to make sure nothing like this ever happens again if we do not accept the fact that this horrible event happened? Not only can we work towards never letting a man made famine happen again if everyone is educated on the Harvest of Despair, but the 10 million deaths of men, women, and children can be acknowledged and mourned,

Not just because it is part of their nation, but also because their brothers and sisters, people who share their same DNA make up, are suffering and dying. How can people ignore that? Then put in more measures to insure a people’s demise. Taking away food, homes, and possessions from people who already have so little. Knowing people are dying, but continue to ship out food that could feed that starving population for two years. Sending soldiers to guard livestock, fields, and grain stores from the hungry. Livestock that are better fed than the starving people tending them. Guarding grain the farmers grow for food, but the farmers themselves will never get to taste. Guarding grain storages that are filled to the top, so much so that there is grain sitting outside the stores rotting. Setting up impossible quotas for starving farmers to meet, then punishing them further when they cannot meet those quotas. Putting laws and regulations in lace to restrict the peasant farmers so much so that they eat the foliage around them till its gone, then their pets not claimed by the state, then finally others around them. People so hungry the result to cannibalism to survive. The knowledge that Stalin would implement these changes, laws, and regulations to create a deliberate famine, a genocide of 10 million Ukrainian people is so disturbing, so horrific it is actually hard to wrap my head around. Then, on top of that, the world decided to nothing about it. Completely leaves me speechless and disgusted with the world we have