Dr. Efraim Zuroff is a legendary Nazi hunter and director of the Jerusalem branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. His opinion about the Holodomor has angered a lot of Ukrainians.
He stated that the Holodomor is definitely not a genocide.' Stalin decided he wanted to eliminate the kulaks – the private farmers – and get them all into collective farms, and totally change the nature of agriculture in Ukraine. Ukrainians were the largest number of victims, but it wasn’t directed against them. It wasn’t a plan to eliminate the Ukrainian people.
There were Jews who died from hunger, as did Belarusians and Russians – Stalin used force to get people into his system but was not trying to exterminate the Ukrainians. Basically, it was a terrible economic policy that resulted in millions of deaths, but genocide in a racial way that Stalin wanted to exterminate Ukrainians because they were Ukrainians? No!
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