Learn about holodomor

Have you ever visited the site http://holodomor-truth.org? holodomorWhen you think about the world at large, what comes to mind first? For example, if you were asked to name a place outside of the United States that you would like to live and work for, I don’t know - let’s say 6 months, what place comes to mind first? Would you want to go back to the land of your ancestors? Would you go to someplace exotic to explore? How about some place where you could do charity work and help a lot of people?

I’ve been giving that a lot of thought lately, especially as I will be graduating this spring and have the opportunity to travel before committing to a full time job or a new career. It gets a little more complicated because I am not a single guy, so the question arises, would I go on my own or ask someone special to accompany me?

My good friend, Peter, has suggested I go to the Soviet Union while it is open and relatively safe for Americans to travel throughout their country. Peter has family in Russia and has told me many great stories of the historical significance of different cities and their leaders, including a lot of information that I have never learned in school even though I have taken quite a few world history and world geography classes.

As I explore more about the Soviet Union with Peter, I am surprised to learn that there was a huge famine as recently as the days of my grandparents and greatgrandparents and I don’t remember ever being to exposed to that fact in any world history classes. Back in 1932-1933 there were millions of people who starved to death throughout the Soviet Union. This fact is coming to light with the current reference to the Soviet holodomor, which has some controversy over whether the famine was genocide. Some people are now alleging that the famine was deliberately caused by the Communist government when they seized grain from the peasants and exported it to raise money for the government.

That very concept is bothersome to me. To think that the government of a country would deliberately cause their own citizens to starve to death while they horde cash is just horrific to me.