Re:New relationship because of the elections (Score 1)

The policy of industrialization MAY have helped to avoid the defeat in the WWII (and a much worse fate for all of Russia and Ukraine) but the implementation of this policy was criminal and nobody in their right mind would excuse the famine of 1930's. However, in this context, it is important to understand that it happened not only in Ukraine (2/3 of victims were from other regions). This happened to the rich farmers in the Soviet Union, Ukraine (along with Kuban) was unlucky enough to have the best conditions for agriculture and the largest stockpiles of foodstuffs to expropriate.

Thus, there is no case of targeted shipments of infected blankets there, this act has been perpetrated against a cross-section of the population defined by their wealth, not by their nationality.