Russian state TV commentator Margarita Simonyan blamed the development, or lack thereof, of "the Western world" for accelerating "the destruction of mankind."
From 1932 to 1933, millions of Ukrainians died of starvation and disease in a Great Famine engineered by then-Soviet Union dictator Joseph Stalin. The Holodomor – named by combining the Ukrainian words for hunger (holod) and extermination (mor) – was only one example of the unholy atrocities that were inflicted upon the Soviet people