I have scoured the internet up and down to find some solid proof that the Holodomor was a genocide. However I have yet to come across anything that very clearly proves that it was premeditated and planned.
To my understanding the Holodomor was caused by a mix of factors centered around the USSR's grain procurement and collectivization, and it was ultimately triggered when the USSR went after wealthy farmers who resisted collectivization. And with those wealthy farmers who previously ran farms gone chaos started, and combined with a drought that caused grain production to drop drastically thus causing mass starvation in Ukraine.
What am I missing? Where is the proof and why are so many historians so sure?
First off, an official mod warning to all passing by: We are watching this closely. All are reminded that our first rule of civility also covers genocide denialism. Anyone who so much as takes a step out of line gets a vacation from the subreddit.
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