International Holodomor Remembrance Day

November 25 is Holodomor Remembrance Day, a time to remember the several million Ukrainians killed by Stalin’s man-made famine. Forced collectivization resulted in the deaths of many other human beings so unfortunate as to be Soviet citizens, including Russians, but Stalin and his henchmen were especially determined to break the Ukrainians.

If there is steel in the spines of Ukraine’s defenders today, at least part of the reason is their knowledge of this history.