FamineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1933-06-01 … 1933-06-30
- 2) Group profile
- Population of Kyiv and Kharkiv oblasts · The two worst-hit 1932 oblastsSelector: Kyiv: 1,110,800 dead (200.3 per 1,000); Kharkiv: 1,037,600 (191.4 per 1,000)
- 3) Decisions
- No decision of their own
- Affected
- About 28,000 deaths a day across the Ukrainian SSR in June 1933; about 1 million children under 10 died in the famine as a whole
- Gap
- The EN Wikipedia is the only edition with the per-oblast table.
Levchuk et al. 2020EN Wikipedia
Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1932 … 1933
- 2) Group profile
- OGPU of the USSR and GPU of the Ukrainian SSR · Chairman Vyacheslav Menzhinsky, deputy Genrikh Yagoda; Ukrainian chiefs Vsevolod Balytsky and Stanislav RedensSelector: Reports sent only to Stalin and the CP(b)U Politburo
- 3) Decisions
- Compiled detailed top-secret reports on deaths, swelling and cannibalism
- Kept them out of any published statistics or press until 1989–1991
- Affected
- At least 2,505 people sentenced for cannibalism; 1,021 case files in the archive, 836 from Kyiv oblast
- Gap
- Which reports reached Stalin personally is not consistently documented.
Holodomor Museum · cannibalism casesUK Wikipedia · Заперечення Голодомору