Terror by Famine: The Holodomor (1932–1933)
The use of artificial famine as a weapon of mass destruction for the physical and psychological suppression of national resistance. The launch of a merciless grain-procurement machine, the confiscation of absolutely all food, the introduction of the "blackboard" regime (a total blockade of settlements), and a ban prohibiting peasants from leaving the starving districts. Physical extermination was accompanied by total psychological terror and show trials[1][2].
Actors
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| G0010 | USSR |
Confiscation of absolutely all food, including the extraction of seed stocks, through the mechanism of crushing grain procurement quotas, which led to mass deadly famine[1]. |
Techniques Used
| ID | Name | Use | |
|---|---|---|---|
| T0121 | Artificial Famine |
Confiscation of absolutely all food, including the extraction of seed stocks, through the mechanism of crushing grain procurement quotas, which led to mass deadly famine[1]. |
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| T0108 | Economic Blockade |
Introduction of the "blackboard" regime — a total economic blockade of settlements, with a ban on cooperative and collective-farm trade and the removal of all goods from stores[2]. |
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| T0057 | Labor Exploitation |
Lethally dangerous exploitation of the labor of Ukrainian peasants, convicted en masse under the "law of five ears of grain" and exiled to corrective labor camps during the Holodomor[1]. |
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| T0104 | Mass Killings of Civilians |
Deliberately starving millions of Ukrainian peasants to death as a direct result of Moscow's state policy[1]. |
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| T0021 | Neutralization of the Opposition |
Arrests of starving peasants who tried to escape from blockaded villages: in early 1933, of 219 thousand detainees, tens of thousands were convicted and sent to camps[1]. |
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| T0022 | Terror |
Systematic psychological suppression through public show trials of "saboteurs" and the introduction of the punitive law on the protection of socialist property (the "law of five ears of grain")[1]. |
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Instruments
| ID | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| S0008 | Government |
Confiscation of absolutely all food, including the extraction of seed stocks, through the mechanism of crushing grain procurement quotas, which led to mass deadly famine[1]. |
| S0010 | Regular Army |
Introduction of the "blackboard" regime — a total economic blockade of settlements, with a ban on cooperative and collective-farm trade and the removal of all goods from stores[2]. |
| S0017 | Secret Police and Security Services |
Deliberately starving millions of Ukrainian peasants to death as a direct result of Moscow's state policy[1]. |
References
- Лариса Якубова, большая команда. (2013). Відносини держави, суспільства і особи під час створення радянського ладу в Україні (1917 – 1938 рр.).
- Михаил Зыгарь. (2023). Война и наказание: Как Россия уничтожала Украину.