The Holodomor: A Short Story

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Assignments I woke up with a jolt as a shrill of rings vibrated through the air. I peered at the red phone across the room and glanced at my bedside clock. The red digital numbers read 5:30 am. Curiously, I shoved my sheets aside, slipped into my slippers, and trudged towards the ringing. My hand slid its fingertips on the cool, plastic handset. With a still groggy voice, I greeted the person on the other side. I was acquainted with a strong, empty silence. Surprised yet a bit annoyed, I put the handset back on the base and trudged back to my awaiting bed. Once I snuggly got back under the sheets, the shrill of rings started again. My eyes flashed open staring up at the ceiling as my heart palpitated in fear. This time I walked slower and quietly to the isolated table where the …show more content…

It is a heroic tale about how one man saved all of Ukraine from the loss of money and food. Stalin was right to not listen to the Ukrainian communists who appealed to Moscow for less grain quotas. If he were to listen to them, whole country would have gone down the drain. After the Holodomor ended, the society was thriving as a whole. Three million children no longer lived to pester in the adult’s work. The social class was spick and span now that the Kulaks were completely destroyed. It was sad to see the Holodomor to end. The Holodomor led to the disimprovement of nourishment and wealth in the pockets of the everyday man. Between 1932 and 1933, the Holodomor disproved to be an effort for better living circumstances by the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Stalin’s brilliant idea emptied the pockets of the people and not to mention their stomachs. Collectivization was an idea created by Stalin’s scheming mind in order for the downer economy to be comparable to the American Industrial Revolution and its earnings. With Stalin’s dictatorship, the Ukrainians were left to die, starving from a deprivation of hope and

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