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Date Posted: 27/11/10 2:04:09
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HolodomorA child victim of Holodomor Period 1932–1933 Total deaths 2.6 - 10 millionObservations Considered genocide by thirteen modern states. A part of the Soviet famine of 1932-1933.
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See also: Soviet famine of 1932–1933 and Soviet Census (1937)
By the end of 1933, millions of people had starved to death or had otherwise died unnaturally in Ukraine, as well as in other Soviet republics. The total estimate of the famine victims Soviet-wide is given as 6-7 million[16] or 6-8 million.[1] The Soviet Union long denied that the famine had taken place. The NKVD (and later KGB) archives on the Holodomor period made records available very slowly. The exact number of the victims remains unknown and is probably impossible to estimate, even within a margin of error of a hundred thousand.[53] The media sometimes report historians' estimates of fatalities as high as seven to ten million.[54][55][56] and a number as high as ten[57] or even twenty million is sometimes cited in political speeches.[58] The former President of Ukraine, Viktor Yushchenko, and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have issued public statements giving the death toll at about 10 million.[59][60] This figure includes unborn children, estimated at more than 6 million.[61] The use of this figure has been criticized by historians Timothy Snyder and Stephen G. Wheatcroft. Snyder wrote: "President Viktor Yushchenko does his country a grave disservice by claiming ten million deaths, thus exaggerating the number of Ukrainians killed by a factor of three; but it is true that the famine in Ukraine of 1932-1933 was a result of purposeful political decisions, and killed about three million people."[59] In an email to Postmedia News, Wheatcroft wrote: "I find it regrettable that Stephen Harper and other leading Western politicians are continuing to use such exaggerated figures for Ukrainian famine mortality" and "There is absolutely no basis for accepting a figure of 10 million Ukrainians dying as a result of the famine of 1932-33."[60]
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