3StalinWorldReaction

Home  Joseph Stalin's policy of forced collectivization caused many problems. In the spring of 1933 when famine was most popular, Joseph Stalin estimated 25,000 people to die daily from hunger in the Ukraine. America, Canada, and Europe helped the Ukrainian people with supplying food. Although the Soviet Union made sure no food shipments made it into Ukraine. The Soviet Union denied the existence of hunger and refused any outside assistance. The Soviet Union was in such denial that a person could be arrested for using the words; famine, hunger or starvation in a sentence. Edouard Herriot, a former French Premier was under the elusion that there was no famine in the Ukraine. In 1933 President F.D.R of the United States decided that they needed to take more action, so they chose to formally recognized Stalin's Communist government, but also negotiate new trade agreement. In 1934, in the West decided to let the Soviet Union into the League of Nations. Even though many countries tried to help, 25% of the citizens died, 7 million people died, and out of 7 million 3 million children died.

[[image:http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/dec2008/famine-victims.jpg width="427" height="256" align="center"]] Kids dying of hunger in Ukraine.
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