Hladomor na Ukrajine v r. 1930 - 1933.
The physical elements in the alleged crime concerning the Ukrainians as a whole
are threefold, two of commission and one of omission.
The first physical element is the export of grain during a famine. In 1932 – 33 grain exports were 1.8 million
tonnes. That was enough to feed more than five million people for one year.
The second physical element was the ban on migration from Ukraine and the North
Caucasus. If one estimates that without the migration ban the number of people
fleeing from Ukraine and the North Caucasus would have been double the number
actually intercepted in the first three months of the ban (i.e. 450,000) and that
migration would have saved the lives of a third of them, then there were 150,000
excess deaths as a result of that measure.
The third physical element is that ‘Stalin made no effort to secure grain assistance from abroad’.
Stalin and the Soviet Famine
of 1932 – 33 Revisited
MICHAEL ELLMAN