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Two relatively new sources, worth adding to the article?
Still, did Ukrainian peasants, the vast majority of the victims, die because they were Ukrainians engaged in agriculture, or because they were peasants who happened to be Ukrainians? Until recently, attempts to solve this question involved trying to decipher Stalin’s mind and intentions, and answers inevitably differed. But recent comprehensive statistical analysis has uncovered a substantial anti-Ukrainian bias in government policies during the Holodomor. This bias explains roughly 92 percent of famine deaths in Ukraine and caused mortality rates that were four to six times higher than those in Russia. Moreover, even the low harvests of the famine years were sufficient to feed all of Ukraine’s population, and had the food grown in Ukraine during the famine been kept in the republic, it would not have triggered starvation elsewhere in the USSR. Rather, the Kremlin’s policy of deliberate overextraction from Ukraine caused the famine. We might now have the answer: Ukrainian peasants, not just the kurkul’ class enemies but also poor and middling peasants, died because they were Ukrainians, not because they farmed. This was a radical break from previous Russian repressions. In the past, the intent to destroy Ukraine centered on targeting culture, institutions, and activists. Ordinary Ukrainians were either to be transformed into Russians or silenced, not exiled, imprisoned, or starved to death because of their identity. Under Stalin, the desire to destroy Ukraine as an identity and an idea escalated into the physical destructions of Ukrainians.[1]
The Soviet Famine, in which 5–10.8 million people perished, is one of the most devastating human tragedies of the 20th century. Particularly controversial is the disproportionately high mortality of Ukrainians. Approximately 2.1–3.15 million ethnic Ukrainians died. Between 1926 and 1939, the share of ethnic Ukrainians in the total Soviet population declined from 21.3% to 16.5%. In areas that the Bolshevik regime marked as important for grain production, ethnic Russians replaced ethnic Ukrainians as the largest ethnic group. By 1939, ethnic Russians constituted 48.1% and ethnic Ukrainians being 37.1% of the population in these regions. This paper provides the first systematic evidence that disproportionately high Ukrainian famine deaths were not an unintended consequence, but an outcome of anti-Ukrainian bias in Soviet policy. The Bolsheviks systematically over-procured food from ethnic Ukrainians, leading to higher Ukrainian mortality during the famine province by province, district by district, within and outside of Ukraine. Anti-Ukrainian bias in the grain distribution policy and migration restrictions both contributed to high Ukrainian famine mortality.[2]
"While scholars are in consensus that the main cause of the famine was largely man-made, not all historians believe that the term man-made is applicable to the Holodomor"
No idea, the second part is a fairly recent addition, while the first one has been in the article for a long time. I have removed the newer addition and qualified the first statement as "most scholars". The additional qualifier "largely" before "man-made" was already there. Together that should be sufficient to do justice to the few opposing voices. Gawaon (talk) 03:40, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
This subsection is clearly anchoring heavily on Mark Tauger's comments on the Markevich, Naumenko, and Qian paper titled "The Causes of Ukrainian Famine Mortality, 1932-1933" and presents information as if Tauger's criticisms are unaddressed in the paper. The Tauger critiques seem to apply to a 2021 working paper version. The paper is now published at the Review of Economic Studies (a top 5 economics journal) and includes robustness checks for the claims Tauger makes as alternative explanation for Markevich et al. findings. It seems this section should either end with the initial Naumenko response to Tauger's comments or include the details from the paper's results & robustness checks that directly test Tauger's claims. Instead, the section continues as if Tauger has refuted the paper's claims. 2600:4040:2537:A000:64FE:1747:1F53:D0F9 (talk) 04:54, 3 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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I believe that the image caption in the Genocide Question section requires further clarification. To not even address the fact that the image is often thoroughly cited as a fake is incredibly biased. Although this subject is most likely sensitive to those who have locked the article to proudly proclaim the Chicago American front page without context in the caption appears to be a form of bias by omission. Please change the caption Chicago American front page to Chicago American frontpage to Chicago American frontpage (credibility challenged by far left historian Douglas Tottle) 69.178.99.160 (talk) 08:55, 20 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]
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Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 08:57, 20 February 2025 (UTC)
Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — 🪫Volatile 📲T | ⌨️C 09:00, 20 February 2025 (UTC)