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Holodomor.

The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government.

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name/ˌhɒlədəˈmɔː(ɹ)/
  1. The 1932–33 famine affecting rural Ukraine and other territories of the Soviet Union, a result of the forced collectivization of land-owning peasants by the Soviet government.

    historical
  2. А famine with mass deaths, especially one of the Soviet famines in 1921–22, 1932–33, or 1946–47.

    historical · rare
Where this word comes from

Late 1980s, from Ukrainian Голодомо́р (Holodomór), from го́лод (hólod, “hunger, famine”) + мо́р (mór, “mass death, exhaustion”). Compare мори́ти (morýty, “kill by hunger or exhaustion”, verb). Not related to Holocaust.

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