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Hekate

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8. Soviet Union vs Ukraine, with no pretext of crop failure. They just took the harvest ...

Sat Oct 11, 2025, 07:27 PM

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Soldiers even poked up chimneys for hidden grain.

My family history, like yours, includes a slew of immigrants fleeing the Potato Famine. As far as I can tell, though, the rest of the disaster was sheer callousness, a crime in its own right. But the USSR set out to kill off the Ukrainians in the breadbasket of Europe.

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