Mr. Volodya, do you know what genocide is? Genocide is the killing of 10 million Ukrainians by starvation in order to destroy the Ukrainian language, Ukrainian culture and curb the national liberation struggle. And what is happening now in Donbas is an attempt to return the Ukrainian territories controlled by the Russian regular army and the separatists supported by it to the control of Ukraine.
If the "Holodomor" was a genocide against Ukrainians, then why did ethnic Russians, Poles, and Bulgarians suffer in similar proportions and numbers?
I've never heard a dumber statement in my life. I don't know where you found this information, but it's total nonsense. And I'm not going to have a discussion with a Russian fanatic like you
Also the famine was not at all confined to Ukraine - 5-9M people are estimated to have died across the Soviet Union about half in Ukraine with millions in southern Russia as well. On a per capita basis the hardest hit area was Kazakhstan.
The main cause for the famine was the idiotic Marxist Leninist belief of the Soviet leadership that collectivization would increase agricultural yields coupled with huge agricultural export quotas used to buy machinery and expertise from the West in order to rapidly industrialize. The collectivization actually decreased yields massively but the export quotas remained the same so Soviet authorities were taking subsistence food from agricultural workers instead of surplus food.
The black earth regions of Ukraine and Southern Russia were hit hard as that was where the biggest agg surplus existed previously to fill the quota and where yield decreases were heaviest. In Kazakhstan the reasons were somewhat different having to do with mass slaughter of animals by pastoralists in prior years to avoid giving them up to central government control.
Note that I did not claim that there was a famine only in Ukraine. In my comment, I only touched on the Holodomor, I simply did not mention the famine in the Volga region, in some other regions of the RSFSR and in Kazakhstan.
I do not deny the existence of famine in Russia, but its scale was much smaller there than in Ukraine. And the famine there was mostly caused by incompetent, clumsy management, while in Ukraine, party workers took away any food from the peasants, absolutely any food, and killed pets so that dogs or cats would not be eaten.
As for Kazakhstan, the reasons was the same as in Ukraine. The Soviet government needed to exterminate a large part of the population in republics smaller than Russia's (because Russia was the largest and most influential) in order to destroy national feelings and the will to resist and the desire to fight for independence.
Also, those who speak Ukrainian, I can drop a link to the website of the Holodomor Museum, which contains oral evidence (audio + text) about that terrible period. Those who doesn't speak Ukrainian can use, for example, Google Translator and read it with my help!