The Holodomor (a Ukrainian word for “death by hunger”) was a famine in the Ukraine from 1932–1933, during which millions of inhabitants died of starvation (estimates range from 2.6 million to 10 million).
Scholars disagree about the causes of the famine: natural factors, bad economic policies and deliberately engineered measures are possible factors. Some have argued that the famine may have been provoked as an attack on the rise of Ukrainian nationalism, and therefore that it falls under the legal definition of genocide. Hence the expression “terror-famine”. Others blame unwise policies of industrialization and collectivization of farming.
These are the countries that do recognize it as a genocide:
Countries which officially recognize the Holodomor as genocide
(source)
This map shows the population decline during the famine:
rate of population decline during the Holodomor Famine map
(source, source; click image to enlarge)
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