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grain, but because the Communist party wanted this man-made famine
to happen. In other words, it was mass murder. Stalin didn't want
Western countries to learn of the famine because he feared that any aid
campaign would only weaken the punishment he had determined for
Ukraine. In the periodical magazine Soviet Studies, historian Dana
Dalrymple comments:
The Soviet Union, in fact, has never officially admitted that the famine ex-
isted. American and English studies on the USSR occasionally mention a
famine in Ukraine but generally provide few or no details. Yet, previous
famines in the USSR have been acknowledged by the government and
have been well recorded elsewhere. Why the difference? The answer
seems to be that the famine of 1932-34, unlike its predecessors was a a man-
made disaster. 48
As a result of collectivization, peasants of Ukraine suffered the
greatest losses, with at least four million people dead. In Kazakhstan,
one million starved as a result of collectivization. In Northern Caucasus
and the Black Earth region, there were a million deaths. With one single
order, Stalin had sent six million people to their deaths.

Exiles and Work Camps

Stalin murdered millions of others who resisted Communism by
sending them into "exile." The Soviet Union singled out many minori-
ties, including Crimean Turks, forcing them from their homes at night
and sending them to their deaths, thousands of kilometers away. Those
who died on the way numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
In the notes below, written by an instructor of the Party committee
in Narym in western Siberia, we see that exile in Russia meant "mass
murder":
On 29 and 30 April 1933 two convoys of "outdated elements" were sent to
us by train from Moscow and Leningrad. On their arrival in Tomsk they
were transferred to barges and unloaded, on 18 May and 26 May, onto the
island of Nazino, which is situated at the juncture of the Ob and Nazina
rivers. The first convoy contained 5,070 people, and the second 1,044: 6,114
in all. The transport conditions were appalling: the little food that was