died in what ukraine calls the holodomor, killing through hunger. russia denies the famine was a deliberate attempt to break the independent spirit of ukrainians. this woman, aged 98, remembers the corpses of the starved. translation: what could i see - i saw people who died. they made a big pit and threw all the bodies there. my father went to western ukraine taking everything good from our home to exchange for food but he got nothing. you can say i had a life but it was no life. her great grandson has heard her memories, as has his older brother, who is serving in the ukrainian army. near the family home there is a mass grave from the famine era.
it is thought up to 4 million people died in what ukraine calls the holodomor killing through hunger . russia denies the famine was a deliberate attempt to break the independent spirit of ukrainians. oleskandr, aged 98, remembers the corpses of the starved. translation: what could i see? i saw people who died. they made a big pit and threw all the bodies there. my father went to western ukraine, taking everything good from our home to exchange for food, but he got nothing. you can say i had a life, but it was no life. her great grandson has heard her memories, as has his older brother, who is serving in the ukrainian army. near the family home, there is a mass grave from the famine era.