In the 1930's, Josef Stalin unleashed a man made famine on the peoples of the Ukraine. Red soldiers siezed the harvest from Kulaks - peasant who owned their own land. Stalin's goal was to starve the Ukranians into submission and wipe out private property while feeding the hungry people who lived in cities. It was they who would riot and rebel if not fed and Russia under Communism was unable to feed its people.Today, there is a movement in the Ukraine to get that deliberate starvation of from 3-10 million people declared an act of genocide. Not surprisingly, the Russians are violently opposed.But their reasoning is mindboggling. They say that no one ethnic group was targeted by the deliberate famine, that in fact, it was a social class that Stalin wanted to murder:  Historians agree that the 1932-33 famine was engineered by Soviet authorities under dictator Josef Stalin to force peasants to give up their private plots of land and join collective farms. Ukraine, with...(Read Full Post)