Joseph Stalin Forced Famine: 7,000,000 Deaths

While history, usually written by socialists or other government-financed historians, often claims Hitler to be the lead genociding maniac of the 20th century, there are other contenders for that title. Mao Zedong arguably genocided 60 million people, many times larger a figure than Hitler.

Then there is Joseph Stalin himself: Stalin is believed to be responsible for easily over 40 million deaths. Many times more than Hitler. Stalin even enacted pogroms against the Jewish people, similar to Hitler. Stalin’s holocaust against the jews and various other groups often goes overlooked by the left-leaning historical societies. The Joseph Stalin “Forced Famine” of 1932 led to 7,000,000 deaths in the Ukraine alone in a short period of only 1 year of his dozens of years of rule.

Talk of the 7,000,000 deaths in Ukraine remains controversial today, with Ukraine alleging they suffered a holocaust at the hands of the Soviet Russian government who feared the Ukrainians might try to secede from the Soviet Union (and many Ukrainians fought against the Soviets in the “White Russian” armies). The Russian media often responds with accusations of Ukraine’s own involvement in pogroms against the Jews. Basically “you did it too!” being their justification. Western history often overlooks this, because the Allied powers themselves have tainted hands. The Allies were responsible for nearly 1 million Ukrainian, White Russian, and Cossack deaths during Operation Keelhaul, where US and British soldiers handed over POWs who were summarily shot by the Soviets without trial, often within earshot of the US soldiers transporting them.

The US congress passed a Resolution attempting to pass the blame for the 7,000,000 deaths in the Ukraine on Joseph Stalin. This met with fierce reaction from the Russian press, who even publicized a story claiming the USA itself had 7,000,000 “deaths” (missing people) from the census:

The credibility of this story is questionable however, due to the ironically similar number of deaths (same as the “Joseph Stalin Forced Famine”), the self-serving nature of the claims, and the obvious lack of historical evidence to corroborate the evidence.