yes indeed ....back then Ukraine was tied to russia ........
The result of Stalin's policies was the Great Famine (Holodomor) of1932–33—a man-made demographic catastrophe unprecedented in peacetime. Of the estimated five million people who died in the Soviet Union, almost four million were Ukrainians. https://www.britannica.com/place/Ukraine/The-famine-of-1932-33-Holodomor
an excellent movie......MrJones ...... about a Welsh journalist who experienced some of it ....was very anti Hitler but pro USSR at the beginning ....that changed .....he exposed the famine .....and later Stalin managed to have him killed .....echoes of that today !
