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sam, take us through this grain from ukraine initiative. reporter: well, i don t think it s any kind of coincidence at all that on the day that ukraine marks the h ooh lodomor, the stylist genocide of ukrainians in the 1930s in which millions were deliberately and systematically substantived, they re trying to get the movement to fund grain particularly where grain prices have shot through the roof as a result of russia s invasion of this country. this is something that is burned into the soul of ukrainians, the experience of the holodomor at the hands of stalin. it s something the german chancellor was keen to drive home when he talked about how hunger could not be used as a weapon of war again.
take us first through the grain from ukraine initiative. reporter: it s no accident at all, of course, that the grain from ukraine inish tissue as you point out is on the same day as ukrainians mark holodomor. that s when stalin used the food or absence of food deliberately. it was also characterized by mass deportations t banning of the ukrainian language frequently, the effort to on lit late rate and suppress any talk of ukrainian culture, history, or art. now, that very similar playbook being used by putin who has himself forced deportation from russian occupation here in ukraine and, of course, he s been accused by the international community and ukraine of using grain and food as a well more widely to show the world the more deadly consequences worldwide of
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