Reddit reviews Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

I read a book about the Holodomor in Ukraine. It is basically the memoirs of a guy who experienced it firsthand when he was a teenager, and the whole story is utterly brutal and haunting.

At the end, the author was drafted into fighting for the Soviets in WWII. He was captured by Nazi Germany and he remained in west Germany after the war, and then managed to secure passage to the US where he lives to this day.

The last passage in the book is this: "My mother and my brother, who suffered with me, who shared with me the last morsel of food, and to whom I owe my survival, remained in the village. They had no other choice but to continue working on the collective farm. World War II separated us and what happened to them afterwards I don’t know."

Here's the book: http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-The-Hidden-Holocaust/dp/0393304167

Basically by forcing them.

I suggest reading Prisoner's of Hunger by Miron Dolot. It is an autobiographical account of being a child in Ukraine when their agriculture was collectivized. It gets pretty heavy at times but allows readers to see what it was like.

This book is a eye witness account of the Ukranian famine, including the methods used to force the farmers into compliance. Highly recommended if you're interested in the subject.

O.k., I will. What do you recommend? While you're at it you can do some reading yourself, something like "[Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust] (http://www.amazon.com/Execution-Hunger-Holocaust-Miron-Dolot/dp/0393304167/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459164660&sr=8-1-fkmr0&keywords=Holodomor+genocide&refinements=p_72%3A2661619011)"

>Seven million people in the "breadbasket of Europe" were deliberately starved to death at Stalin's command. This story has been suppressed for half a century. Now, a survivor speaks.

>In 1929, in an effort to destroy the well-to-do peasant farmers, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. In the ensuing years, a brutal Soviet campaign of confiscations, terrorizing, and murder spread throughout Ukrainian villages. What food remained after the seizures was insufficient to support the population. In the resulting famine as many as seven million Ukrainians starved to death

Or just Google "Holomodor Genocide" and look [at the images] (https://www.google.com/search?q=holodomor+genocide&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjh95a9pOPLAhVJeSYKHWG5DXoQ_AUICCgC&biw=1415&bih=732) if you have the stomach for it...