The point of this paper is to show how the Holodomor came about, as it was a decades-long process of terror and suppression through the most brutal and inhumane means. This paper itself covers the first of the three Holodomor Genocides, the 1921-22 Holodomor. While the 1921 Holodomor was far smaller in scale than its 1932-33 counterpart, it is nonetheless an essential part of Western History as the West was directly complicit in the cover-up of upwards of 15 million murders.

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The year, 1933. The place, the Soviet Union. Behind the facade, food is being used as a weapon against people proving troublesome to Moscow. Famine is engineered deliberately in the North Caucasus, the Volga Basin, and Ukraine. The Soviet Secret Police seal off Ukraine's borders, no one can get out, or bring food in. A nation the size of France is strangled by hunger. In less than two years, upwards of ten million died, seven million of them in Ukraine, and three million of them children.

“This is the most terrible thing I’ll ever see precisely because of the deliberation with which it was done and the total absence of any kind of sympathy.”

~ Malcolm Muggeridge, British Correspondent

“The nearest city was forty miles so I would walk once a week to that city and with my salary, I could buy two loaves of bread a month, so that’s only how we could survive. But the peasants were dying.”

~ Motria Dutka, Former Village-Midwife

“This was the first time in my life that I saw people dying, and of course, it was very hard.”

~Lubov Drasheska, Student During Famine

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The untold story of Ukraine’s greatest tragedy begins in a time of great optimism and joy in March 1917. A tidal wave or Revolution swept aside the mighty Tsar and his empire, and national boundaries began to dramatically shift. Ukraine used this chance to reclaim its independence after two hundred years of Russian domination. Kiev, the ancient capital, once again became the seat of Government.

December 1917, after consolidating Bolshevik control in Russia, Lenin prepared to reclaim the former Tsarist territories. Over the next four years, Ukraine will fight against Lenin’s Red Army, Anton Denikin’s White Army, Germans and Poles. Whether the armies marched in as friend or foe, the price was always the same, in food. Ukraine, a bountiful country, is slowly bled dry.

1921, the dust of battle finally settled with the Bolsheviks retaking a major part of the country. Western Ukraine is carved up between Poland, Romania and Czechoslovakia. Despite this, many Ukrainian peasants fought in Partisan Brigades. The Tambov province in particular proved extra troublesome to the Bolshevik invaders.

In June, Tukhachevsky received permission from Antonov-Ovsejenko's commission to begin the use of chemical weapons, by direct order from the leadership of the Red Army and the Communist Party. Publications in local Communist newspapers openly glorified the liquidations of "bandits" with the poison gas.

“The forests where bandits are hiding are to be cleared by the use of poison gas. This must be carefully calculated so that the layer of gas penetrates the forest and kills everyone hiding there.”

~ Order No. 171

The brutal and inhuman methods to be used on the villages were:

1. Shoot on sight any citizens who refuse to give their names.
2. District and Regional Political Commissions are hereby authorized to pronounce sentences on any village where arms are being hidden
and to arrest hostages and shoot them if the whereabouts of the arms are not revealed.
3. Wherever arms are found, execute immediately the eldest son in the family.
4. Any family that has harboured a bandit is to be arrested and deported from the province, their possessions are to be seized, and the
eldest son is to be executed immediately.
5. Any families sheltering other families who have harboured bandits are to be punished in the same manner, and their eldest son is to
be shot.
6. In the event that bandit families have fled, their possessions are to be redistributed among peasants who are loyal to the Soviet
The regime and their houses are to be burned or demolished.
7. These orders are to be carried out rigorously and without mercy.


On the 19th of October, Lenin wrote to Felix Dzerzhinsky saying,

“It is vital that the movement (Tambov) be crushed as swiftly as possible in the most extreme fashion: we must be more energetic than this.”

Thus hunger became the most powerful weapon imaginable as areas of high grain seizure suffered most horrifically due to their resistance. Bestial torture, crucifixions and scalpings ensued. Shootings by the Cheka (Secret Police) were commonplace, even children caught eating confiscated grain were shot as “Traitors of the Proletariat”.

In 1921, messengers who represented the starving farmers asked Leon Trotsky, Lenin’s right-hand man, for help. He replied to the people,

“You are starving? This is not famine yet! When your women start eating their children then you may come and say you are starving.”

Lenin even outlined the need for famine by stating,

“destroying the peasant economy and driving the peasant from the country to the town, the famine creates the proletariat…”

At which point he exposed the Bolshevik Famine.

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In village after village, the women, children and elderly were savagely beaten and often were removed from their homes and sent to concentration camps. A prelude to the Gulag system that the next Holodomor would become famous for. Conditions in these camps were intolerable: typhus and cholera were endemic, and the half-naked prisoners lacked even the most basic requirements. A conservative estimate states that at least 50,000 were interned with the mortality rate in the camps at least 20% a month.

That same year, Walter Duranty, an Anglo-American journalist who served as the Moscow Bureau Chief of The New York Times, moved to Lenin’s Soviet construct directly coinciding with the beginning of the first Holodomor and forced famine in Russia. The fact that he was the only reporter allowed to move around Russia unaccompanied is in itself damming.

Violent torture and the confiscation of food proved such an effective method of crushing Tambov that the cycle was repeated in Ukraine in areas resisting occupation by Bolshevism. It is a matter of record that international relief organizations were forbidden to operate in Ukraine until January 1922 confirming that Bolshevik authorities had no wish to alleviate the suffering they had inflicted until they were quite sure the population had been “pacified”. Meanwhile, the Russian populace was in the grip of an equally destructive Bolshevik Famine plot and it is estimated that between the two famines, five million people were murdered.