Joseph is wracked with grief. He leaves his son to be cared for by his wife’s parents and throws himself into his revolutionary work. He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian.

In the Great Famine of the 1930s, as many as four million Ukrainians died during the forced collectivisation of farms by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The BBC's Fergal Keane has been to the ...

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky remembered the victims of the 1932-1933 famine, or Holodomor (death by starvation in Ukrainian) when Soviet leader Joseph Stalin ordered the seizure of all ...

Joseph Stalin was a mass murderer ... They knew of Stalin’s brutal actions in Ukraine and the resulting famine, but they would not report it. It was not until Nikita Kruschev denounced his ...

Though the interview with Stalin never materializes, Jones unearths a story with far graver consequences: the horrific truth of a state-imposed famine, the Holodomor (which means killing by hunger ...

23, honoring the victims of the Soviet man-made famine that killed an estimated three to five million Ukrainians. The Holodomor occurred from 1932 to 1933 under Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's rule.

5, 2025. (Courtesy of Zina Poletz Gutmanis) The famine, called the Holodomor, lasted from 1932 to 1933 in Ukraine under the rule of Soviet Union leader Joseph Stalin. According to the University ...