Ninety-one years ago this week, millions of Ukrainians starved to death while grain rotted in Soviet warehouses. Stalin’s regime seized their harvests, blocked aid, and watched them die. The Holodomor – “death by hunger” – was genocide: deliberate, calculated, and monstrous.
History does not repeat itself exactly, but it certainly rhymes.
Russia’s war against Ukraine is not about territory, NATO expansion, or any other excuse that Vladimir Putin offers. It is about erasing Ukraine as a nation. The methods have changed – missiles instead of grain seizures, filtration camps instead of forced collectivization – but the goal remains the same: to destroy Ukrainian identity and make Ukraine disappear.
Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya captured this continuity in a statement today on her X account: “On the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of the Holodomor, we remember the millions starved by the Soviet regime in a genocide against the Ukrainian nation. Today, Russia repeats the same evil in its war of aggression. Ukraine will prevail, and Russia must be held accountable.”
She is right. And the world knows it.
Yet here comes Donald Trump, already threatening to cut aid unless Kyiv accepts a “peace deal” that rewards Russian aggression. He wants Ukraine to surrender territory, accept occupation, and legitimize conquest. He calls it pragmatism, but we all know it is capitulation.
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