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The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine
Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known to Ukrainians as The Holodomor. Hear a survivor's account.
In the 1930s, a combination of bad weather and Soviet policy under Stalin led to a devastating famine in Ukraine. Several million people died in what became known to Ukrainians as The Holodomor. In 2010, Alan Johnston brought together accounts from a survivor and a journalist who visited Ukraine at the time.
(Photo: Ukrainian peasants in Kyiv in 1934. Credit: Getty Images)
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