# Red Famine

- Author: [Anne Applebaum](https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-applebaum.md)
- Quotes: 3
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/anne-applebaum/red-famine

## Quotes

> Stalin’s policies that autumn led inexorably to famine all across the grain-growing regions of the USSR. But in November and December 1932 he twisted the knife further in Ukraine, deliberately creating a deeper crisis. Step by step, using bureaucratic language and dull legal terminology, the Soviet leadership, aided by their cowed Ukrainian counterparts, launched a famine within the famine, a disaster specifically targeted at Ukraine and Ukrainians.

> The archival record backs up the testimony of the survivors. Neither crop failure nor bad weather caused the famine in Ukraine.

> Starvation was the result, rather, of the forcible removal of food from people’s homes; the roadblocks that prevented peasants from seeking work or food; the harsh rules of the blacklists imposed on farms and villages; the restrictions on barter and trade; and the vicious propaganda campaign designed to persuade Ukrainians to watch, unmoved, as their neighbours died of hunger.