Ukraine Mourns Millions Who Died in ‘32-’33 Famine
<i> Associated Press</i>
KIEV, Ukraine —
After 60 years of official silence, Ukraine on Sunday mourned the death of 4 million to 7 million people in a famine caused by the Communist drive to collectivize agriculture.
Flags flew at half-mast and government buildings were draped with black ribbons for the first commemoration of what historians have labeled “the unknown Holocaust” and the “harvest of sorrow” in 1932-33.
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