Film

Seeds of Hunger - Ukraine 1933

Name: Seeds of Hunger - Ukraine 1933
Genre: Documentary, History, Crime
Released: 2023-01-20

2023 · 1h 8m · Documentary · History · Crime

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Overview

Between 1931 and 1933, 4 million Ukrainians were to die of hunger. This famine was not preceded by any cataclysmic weather event, nor by a war. This was an ideological crime: decided by Stalin and approved by the Politburo, with the aim of punishing Ukrainian peasants who refused the collectivization of the countryside, cultivated a strong form of nationalism and showed resistance to communist ideology. Drawing on previously unpublished material, on many Soviet films and on a number of particular points of view, including that of Welsh journalist and whistleblower Gareth Jones, this film retraces the story of that famine.