Next are materials relating to two other genocidal famines that occurred in Ukraine. Altogether three famines took place in Ukraine: in 1921–23, 1932–33, and 1946–47. More information has been preserved about the famine of 1921–23, because in those years many international aid organizations were working in the USSR, particularly in Ukraine. Later, for ideological reasons, Moscow banned and sealed this infor. mation as a manifestation of bourgeois influence on the population. For decades all references to the famine of 1932–33 were labeled “anti– Soviet propaganda.” Even today Communist propaganda about the famines in Ukraine is aimed at convincing the world that they were caused by famine and drought. But this is unsubstantiated fiction. Hydrometeorological reports for 1932 confirm that there was no drought in Ukraine that year, and grain productivity was significantly higher than in 1931. A particular geographic feature of the territory of Ukraine is that even if there are drought years with poor harvests in the eastern or southern parts of Ukraine, they do not occur in other regions. What’s more, under conditions of a normal exchange of food supplies and unhindered population migration, no general famine and resulting mass deaths would ever occur. This proves that the famine of 1932–33 was planned by Moscow against the rebellious Ukrainian peasantry, and the entire punitive system of the Bolsheviks was put into operation in order to carry out this inhumane “measure.”

On February, 6 1922 the State Political Directorate (GPU) was created in place of the VChK. The Soviet authorities thus attempted to conceal the compromised and detestable abbreviation of the Cheka, which had already become a symbol of violence and mass killing. The creation of the GPU was aimed both at hiding the very nature of the Soviet regime and showing the people that the government was ostensibly changing its attitude toward the population.