10 Despicable War Crimes That Were Shamefully Denied

7. Holodomor - The Soviet Famine 1932-33

Famine may sound like a natural disaster, but occasionally it rears its ugly head in international politics as an act of genocide. The Soviet Famine of 1932-33 mainly affected Ukraine and surrounding areas. Basically it is thought that the Soviet Famine came about as part of the government's forced collectivisation on its agricultural resources. This was a botched plan in the USSR that led to between 6-10 million deaths. Nobody went to the farmers' assistance as hundreds of thousands of them tried to flee the countryside to no avail. Because he ran a totalitarian regime which demanded absolute obedience to the cult of Joseph Stalin, any mention of the Holomodor was considered to be very unpatriotic and subversive and could see you thrown in jail. The whole affair was forbidden to talk about in the USSR until Perestroika and Glasnost under Gorbachev. While the famine was raging, Stalin mounted a clever programme of disinformation to the West which led to some idiot journalists believing there was nothing unsavoury about the regime and bleating pro-Stalinist nonsense in their newspapers. By 1945, the love affair with Mother Russia was smashed into smithereens as people realised they were dealing with a hegemonic tyrant with no respect for the sanctity of life.