Joseph Stalin's Forced Famine

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Joseph Stalin is known to be “one of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history” (bbc.co.uk). Stalin became general secretary of the Communist Party, which had given him the control that he had been looking for (bbc.co.uk). Soon after, he was granted dictatorship of the Soviet Union after Vladimir Lenin had died (historyplace.com). Many people did not like the way that Stalin was ruling. People wanted their own independence from Stalin and he did not take that very well. In 1929, Stalin had believed that many Ukrainian scholars, scientists, religious leaders, etc. were planning a riot against him. Without even being listened to during a trial, they were killed or deported immediately to prison camps (blogspot.com). The beginning of the genocide started with classification of the civilization. Stalin classified people into different groups because of collective farming. Stalin wanted to combine the farming so that it would be like one big farm. The farmers ended up losing their farms and all of their possessions that were there also. Stalin believed that an uprising could happen in the future if he hadn’t gotten rid of the Kulaks. He thought he had to take more control towards them so he took away all of their things and soon enough, they were homeless. Since the Kulaks were in disagreement with Stalin, he began to symbolize them into their own group. Representation of the Kulaks began because Stalin knew he had to separate the Kulaks from everyone else because they had disobeyed his orders that were given to them. He gave them another name to separate the Kulaks from everybody else. He decided to give them the name “enemies of the people” (blogspot.com). This way people would know who was considered traitors to Stal... ... middle of paper ... ...ugh they do not feel as if what they did was genocide, many countries such as The United States, Canada, Italy, Peru, Poland, Australia, and many more recognize that Stalin was the leader of the 1932-1933 Ukrainian Famine and acknowledge it as genocide. On November 28, 2006 parliament created a law stating the famine in Ukraine was in fact, genocide. It is now against the law to deny anything that happened within that year (unitedhumanrights.org). Works Cited: BBC News. BBC, n.d. Web. 14 Jan. 2014. "Endocide." : Stalin's Forced Famine. [1932. N.p., 10 May 2007. Web. 16 Jan. 2014. Krushelnycky, Askold. "Ukraine Famine." Ukraine Famine. N.p., 2003. Web. 17 Jan. 2014. "The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-33." The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century: Stalin's Forced Famine 1932-33. N.p., 2000. Web. 13 Jan. 2014.

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