FamineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-08-07
- 2) Group profile
- TsIK and SNK of the USSR · Decree drafted by Stalin, signed by Mikhail Kalinin (TsIK Chairman), Molotov (SNK Chairman) and Avel Yenukidze (TsIK Secretary)Selector: Moscow; applied USSR-wide
- 3) Decisions
- Declared kolkhoz property, grain in the fields included, "sacred" state property
- Set shooting with confiscation of property as the penalty for theft; at least 10 years with mitigating circumstances; no amnesty
- Affected
- About 54,000 convicted in Aug–Dec 1932 across the USSR, about 2,100 sentenced to death; 250 death sentences in Ukraine by 14 Sep 1932
- Gap
- Conviction totals vary by period (54,000 for 1932, "over 200,000" overall); executions actually carried out in Ukraine are not counted reliably.
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FamineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-08-11
- 2) Human profile
- Joseph Stalin · General Secretary of the VKP(b) CC, writing from Sochi to Lazar Kaganovich (CC Secretary)
- 3) Decisions
- Named Ukraine the top priority; warned that "we could lose Ukraine"
- Proposed replacing Kosior with Kaganovich and the Ukrainian GPU chief Redens with Balytsky
- Said Ukraine had to become a "fortress"
- Affected
- CP(b)U leadership, later the Ukrainian population
- Gap
- Read as proof of anti-Ukrainian intent (Applebaum, Graziosi) or as security paranoia about Poland (Davies and Wheatcroft). The US Commission published it with an 11 September date.
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FamineMedium confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932-08-17 … 1932-08-28
- 2) Group profile
- Politburo of the VKP(b) CC · Chaired by Kaganovich while Stalin was on holidaySelector: About 10 full members, Moscow
- 3) Decisions
- Cut the plan for Ukraine by 40 million poods for the worst-hit raions
- Still ordered Ukraine to return 8.25 million poods of earlier loans and to speed up exports
- Affected
- Worst-hit raions of the Ukrainian SSR
- Gap
- Tauger and Davies and Wheatcroft use the cuts against the genocide reading; the UK Wikipedia stresses the loan repayments instead.
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