Genrikh Yagoda was a Jewish man in the USSR's secret police 1934-1936 and was one of the main individuals responsible for the deaths of 10 million Ukrainians whom he intentionally starved to death in an event know as the Holodomor 'killing by starvation' or Ukrainian Genocide. It has been officially recognised by 16 countries. Food was deliberately confiscated, outside aid was prevented and people were forbidden from travelling around the country. The quote below from Timothy Synder's book Bloodlands illustrates how bad the genocide was.
"Survival was a moral as well as a physical struggle. A woman doctor wrote to a friend in June 1933 that she had not yet become a cannibal, but was 'not sure that I shall not be one by the time my letter reaches you.' The good people died first. Those who refused to steal or to prostitute themselves died. Those who gave food to others died. Those who refused to eat corpses died. Those who refused to kill their fellow man died. Parents who resisted cannibalism died before their children did."
In fact things got so bad that the USSR put out posters telling people not to eat their own children and later banned all discussion of the famine. My question is why do you not know this mans face?
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Most of the people iterested in the USSR history seem to recongnize this person, I guess...
Yeh sure, ask the next ten people you meet and see how many know his name. In general, USSR History as you put it, has been downplayed. The communists killed far more people than the fascists last century but our education system in the west is in general sympathetic to Marxism.
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