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Our Life | Наше життя November | Листопад 2020 homes, stripped of their possessions, and exiled to arctic labor camps. Many were never heard from again. The peasants who were forced onto collective farms were subjected to one of the greatest atrocities known to civilization: a deliberate, man-made famine designed to crush all resistance and break the will of the Ukrainian people. By imposing ever- higher grain quotas on the collective farms – quotas that were impossible to meet – the government ensured that no grain would be left to feed the peasants. Indeed, while the Soviet government exported almost 30 million tons of grain in 1932 – 1933, millions of Ukrainians starved to death. Stalin’s reign of terror was not restricted to peasant farmers. He instituted the destruction of churches and cultural institutions. Writers, scholars, artists, and clergy were arrested and executed or exiled; Ukraine’s intelligentsia was essentially wiped out as a result of these purges. Amazingly, while millions of people were dying in Ukraine, the world hardly noticed. The secretive Soviet regime did not allow foreigners to visit the countryside. Despite the efforts of some reporters, human rights activists, and Ukrainian expatriates, few accounts of the Famine ever reached the outside world; those that did were often ridiculed by proponents of the Communist regime and by the Soviet government, which repeatedly denied the existence of the Famine. As a result, little has been known about one of the world’s most heinous crimes against humanity, and the murder of millions of people has escaped the attention of mankind, its conscience, and its justice. 7 Long lines formed in Kharkiv in 1933 as people waited for milk for their children and for bread to be delivered to a bakery. Food in cities was strictly rationed. A peasant woman and her children – refugees from the country - side – in front of an empty store in Kyiv, 1933. The exhibition Holodomor : The Totalitarian Solution draws on a variety of sources. Harvard University’s superb catalog of its 1983 memorial exhibition, Famine in the Soviet Ukraine, 1932–1933 , provided invaluable material, as did the photographs and documents from Ukraine’s Central Government Archives, which were released after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The archives of the Ukrainian National Women’s League of America and the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America also proved to be extremely valuable sources. The Ukrainian Museum was able to draw on its own archival collection of photos and memoirs, amassed and donated for the most part by Famine witness and chronicler Vadym Pavlovsky, as well as on the newspapers supplied by Mykola Panchenko (the New York American and the New York Evening Journal ). Two publications were important sources of photographic material documenting the Famine: Ewald Ammende’s Muss Russland hungern? (Vienna: Wilhelm Braumuller, 1935) and A. Laubenheimer’s Und du Siehst die Sowjets Richtig (Berlin and Leipzig: Nibelungen-Verlag, 1935). In addition, The Ukrainian Weekly and The Christian Science Monitor graciously allowed copies of their publications to be reproduced; the General Research Division of The New York Public Library (Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations) similarly gave the Museum permission to reproduce an issue of the Manchester Guardian . © 2013 Exhibition Holodomor: The Totalitarian Solution produced by The Ukrainian Museum, New York
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