Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust

click here for more details, find new or used items	M Dolot Our price £8.45 New from £6.17 Used from £6.17 Pages: 231 (Paperback) ISBN: 0393304167 Pub: W. W. Norton & Co. Pub date: 1990-08-01 Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 100117

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must read (2/4 people found this helpful)

I never heard about this holocaust before. The tittle itself attracted me to buy and read the story of this book. After finished this book, i fell sad, sympathy,angry & upset. Sad with what happed to the people of Ukranian, sympathy goes to author & his family, and also all farmers & died peoples because of uncivilized policy of Soviet Union, angry with stupidity of government officers or communist party members who cannot see and understand how tragic the hunger situation by charging people with tax & delivery quota, and upset because at the end author was separated with his mother & younger brother because of WWII which i really i want to know what happen to them after the war.

I suggest for those who want to know the reality of Stalin policy during Soviet Union period have to read this book which i think can support your history knowledge about Stalin & Soviet Union collectivisation policy.

Joseph Stalin & Soviet Communism rot in hell (13/16 people found this helpful)

The author describes life in his village during this period. Firstly, outsiders, urban dwellers appeared spouting the party line, endlessly calling meetings to browbeat with torrid, repetitive speeches from petty party officials the paradise of collective agriculture over independant farming.

This ultimately culminated in systematic slaughter and banishment of children, women and menfolk to hellish frozen wastelands. Most never ever returned.

The Communist party, not content with starving the populace into submission delved to new petty depths. They took all animals, seeds, machinery, horses, food and anything else the rural population held in high esteem. Pets such as cats and dogs were gunned down on the street. The Ukraine national symbol - the nightingale - unwittingly became the next victim - teams of shooters blasted it out of the sky, whilst Ukrainian farmers and their families starved, very slowly to death.

Read this and do not let the propogandists/politicians of any society lead us to believe what they are saying, let us judge with our own eyes.

Very best wishes to you all

Heart-rending (17/19 people found this helpful)

In 1929, Joseph Stalin ordered the collectivization of all Ukrainian farms. During the resulting upheaval, some seven million Ukrainians died of starvation. But, while it ended with mass starvation, the Soviet program of oppression started with property confiscation, arbitrary arrests, judicial and extrajudicial murder, and a whole constellation of unspeakable mistreatment.

One of the survivors of this holocaust was a young Ukrainian boy, who survived the conflagration and World War II, and succeeded in escaping to the United States. Written under the pseudonym of Miron Dolot, this heart-rending book tells the story of what he saw throughout the holocaust, and what he felt and thought.

I originally picked up this book because my own family, who were Russian Mennonites, left Ukraine before this time, but all of the relatives that stayed were annihilated to the last man, woman and child. Even so, I dare anyone to read this book and not be moved. The author does an excellent job of bringing the heartless insanity of this holocaust home to right where you live.

So, if you are interested in Russian or Ukrainian history, then I highly recommend this moving book to you.

I recommend this book, brief but well written: (16/17 people found this helpful)

Upon first reading the diary of Anne Frank, I have become interested in other "similar" types of narratives. Miron Dolot certainly gives us a captivating and sometimes heartwrenching account of when Stalin and his henchmen in Moscow carried out this policy against the poor Ukrainians during the early 1930s. This famine did not only effect Ukraine but Kazakhstan and possibly other areas as well. The story of the famine told by a young teenage boy is very insightful. Such a sorrowful chapter of history.

"Harvest of Sorrow" by Robert Conquest is another good book on the same subject. This one, however, is briefer compared to Conquest's book and can be read in the course of a weekend.

Dolot's book should be read by all interested in European history. I also agree, that it should be used in schools.

Destined to become a classic...a monumental work (7/9 people found this helpful)

I read this book carefully in a span of 24 hours. Surely this book has "legs", by which I mean word of mouth alone may be enough to someday put this book on the required reading lists of schools of some future era. This 231 page memoir is as powerful and as riveting as the best of fiction. It certainly provides one with a deeper understanding of George Orwell's "Animal Farm". If it is possible to recommend this book more than I am doing, it is only because I do not know how, that I do not.

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