but 95 year old petro knows what a lie that was. forced collectivisation of farms brought starvation and terror to his family. translation: it was very scary. there was a brigade with pitchforks who came to every house searching for bread. i was five at that time. we locked the doors and all the windows but they used crowbars to come inside, and then they went to all the barns to try and find any buried bread. food was seized to punish peasants who resisted collectivisation. it“s 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. oleksandra, 98, remembers the corpses of the starved.
with pitchforks who came to every house searching for bread. i was five at that time. we locked the doors and all the windows but they used crowbars to come inside, and then they went to all the barns to try and find any buried bread. food was seized to punish peasants who resisted collectivisation. it s 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. oleksandra, 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.
forced collectivisation of farms brought starvation and terror to his family. translation: it was very scary. there was a brigade with pitchforks who came to every house searching for bread. i was five at that time. you locked the doors and all the windows, but they used crowbars to come inside, and then they went to all the barns to try and find any buried bread. food was seized to punish peasants who resisted collectivisation. it s 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. this woman, aged 98, remembers the corpses of the starved. translation: what could i see -
forced collectivisation of farms brought starvation and terror to his family. translation: it was very scary. there was a brigade with pitchforks who came to every house searching for bread. i was five at that time. we locked the doors and all the windows but they used crowbars to come inside, and then they went to all the barns to try and find any buried bread. food was seized to punish peasants who resisted collectivisation. it s 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. oleksandra, 98, remembers the corpses of the starved. translation: what could i see? i saw people who died.
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.