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What Was Life Like During The Holodomor: The Great Famine Of Ukraine 1932 to 1933

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It is known as the Holodomor. The communist induced famine killed up to 3.9 million people between 1932-33 in Ukraine alone.

The reasons for the famine are a subject of scholarly and political debate. Some scholars suggest that the man-made famine was a consequence of the economic problems associated with changes implemented during the period of Soviet industrialisation. There are also those who blame a systematic set of policies perpetrated by the Soviet government under Stalin designed to exterminate the Ukrainians.

So what was life like during the famine?

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What are some tactics that Russian troll farms are using online to defend the Russian invasion of Ukraine?

Whataboutism: What about what the west did in Syria/Afghanistan/Iraq? They are no place to judge.”
Why it’s illogical: Implies justification of Party X’s past actions for Party Y’s current actions. You can and should criticize more than one thing, but the conversation at hand is Russia invading Ukraine. Also there seems to be little accountability in the case of Russia in its extreme amount of war crimes.

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Is Russia Really Doing A Piss-Poor Job In Ukraine Or Are We Just Being Fed Propaganda?

There’s an element of the fact that the west is generally on Ukraine’s side, and that we’re therefore seeing a Ukraine-centric perspective

But at the same time, the maps don’t lie: Russia was expected to roll Ukraine over in a matter of days or weeks, yet is now 7 weeks into the war and have clearly not steamrolled Ukraine or even achieved their likely/apparent goals

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Ukrainian troops are now deploying Panzerfaust-3IT anti-tank weapons received from Germany. These systems can reputedly kill any Russian tank in service.

The Panzerfaust 3 series of launchers is a compact, lightweight, shoulder-fired, unguided antitank weapon series. It consists of a disposable canister with a 110-mm warhead and reusable firing and sighting device.

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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky rejects asylum offers from Europe: “I will stay in my country and if I die, I will die with my soldiers.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had also turned down an offer from the United States of evacuation from the capital city Kyiv.

“The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride,” Zelensky told the US.

“I am here. We are not putting down arms. We will be defending our country, because our weapon is truth, and our truth is that this is our land, our country, our children, and we will defend all of this,”

“That is it. That’s all I wanted to tell you. Glory to Ukraine,”

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The people of Kiyv, Ukraine evacuating the capital after Russia begins their invasion

Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee. Ukraine’s government said Russian tanks and troops rolled across the border in a “full-scale war” that could rewrite the geopolitical order and whose fallout already reverberated around the world.

In unleashing Moscow’s most aggressive action since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, President Vladimir Putin deflected global condemnation and cascading new sanctions — and chillingly referred to his country’s nuclear arsenal. He threatened any foreign country attempting to interfere with “consequences you have never seen.”

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