Man[goes] to Ukraine

Famine - an extreme scarcity of food (Merriam - Webster)

Artificial famine - intentional famine by humans (I think)

 The Holodomor -  Artificial famine in Ukraine by the USSR

People easily talk about the Holocaust, but they never talk about all the other human "exterminations" that have been carried out: 

i) Mongol conquest of Western Xia (Half of pop. of Western Xia was killed - 1,500,000)

ii) Cambodian Genocide (1,500,000 - 3,000,000 killed)

iii) Indonesian Genocide (500,000 - 3,000,000 killed)

iv) The Holodomor (1,800,000 - 7,000,000 killed)

Let's briefly talk about the Holodomor. 

The harvest of 1932 only procured 4.3 million tons compared to the previous year's 7.2 million tons. Rations in Ukraine were heavily cutback and food was "collected" from the peasants to be put in the government depots. Most of the harvest was sent to Russia.

Peasants were the first to be heavily affected.

The urban population was shown agitprop movies, which showed the peasants hiding food and keeping it for themselves. Then came the very restrictive rations in the urban areas.
People, literally, starved to their death.

(↑)Map of the Depopulation of Ukraine & Southern Russia.
Territories in white were not part of the USSR.

(↑) Wikipedia

"Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was "not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you." The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did." (Margolis)

This shows how something can often overshadowed by something else. When we talk about world records, we don't really care about the 2nd or the 3rd or so on. We need to value these more than we are right now. We only care about what happened in the end. Colleges don't care why you don't have a 4.0 GPA. It sucks! Maybe a family tragedy happened. Maybe your parents got divorced. We only care about the end result because humane qualities limit or are harmful to us like in our extra credit assignment.
We need to give more value to humane qualities.
                                                                                                  

Now, time for some Ukrainian scenery:

 

 Tunnel of Love (Hey ↑ Varun)

That's a long JUUL (Jk)

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