Nearly four million people died of starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s during a horrifying man-made famine that has irreparably scarred the fabric of Ukrainian society - but few today even know its name.
The Holodomor was once judged a 'classic example' of genocide by Raphael Lemkin, the Polish lawyer who coined the term after bearing witness to Nazi atrocities in World War Two.
An effort to suppress Ukrainian identity collided with a plot to extract grain to fuel burgeoning industrial centres in , leading to mass starvation, disease and cannibalism as Soviet administrators did nothing to stop the tragedy.
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