History's Greatest Crime (Censored) - The History of Ukraine Part V

[@knpark2025]

We Koreans have an informal greeting in our language based on the phrase "Did you eat(밥 먹었냐)". We sometimes bid each other farewell with an informal phrase that comes from "Let's eat together someday(나중에 밥 한 번 먹자)". Of all the bad things the Empire of Japan had done in the Korean Peninsula, the one thing we remember the most other than their attempts at cultural and linguistic genocide is the fact that "they took our rice". There are two groups of people we all agree to hate in this world, and they are 1) those who mess with food, and 2) those who mess with children. The only group we get even more angry at than either of those groups is 3) those who mess with children's food. I hope this context explains how *LIVID* I become whenever I read, hear, or think about the Holodomor. A Buddhist hell in East Asia stretches a liar's tongue into a plot of farmland and pulls a plow through it to grow crops. I hope Stalin stays there and makes up for the grain he had stolen for a very, very long time.

[@knpark2025]

15:11 This is also relatable and bitter to me because of what I had learned in my high school Korean modern history classes. Back then if the fighters in the independence movement had the means to resist Japan's occupation of the Korean Peninsula they didn't care if they were (right-wing) nationalists or (left-wing) communists. The problem is that their difference in ideology not only made it difficult to form a united front but also tore them in half shortly after Korea was liberated in 1945, making each half calling the other side traitors and enemies of the nation. Even to this day, the South Korean alt-right loves to tarnish the contribution of so many prominent figures in the resistance movement for being left-wing, even if those historical figures had little to no contribution to the North-South divide after 1945.

[@Kato0909]

Ouch. As a descendant of a singe survivor in so called "kulak family" of 7 people, I thank you for our work. It's really hard topic, and there aren't many knowledge about soviet genocides of Ukrainians in English youtube.

[@helgasq]

My grandmother told me from the words of great-grandmother that in Mariupol it was easier because of the sea. Now the Russians have captured the city and the local memorial to the Holodomor was dismantled very quickly.

[@balinthehater8205]

They did the same in the baltics in 1940. Destroyed every monument they could get their hands on that had any mention of the local nation's previous independence. Most of them that exist today are replicas painstakingly remade after independence or small ones that were hidden from the occupying forces.

[@hx5525]

Russian Orks

[@DepartmentOfResults]

@@helgasq I didn't know that. That's horrible, but to be expected. Can't have the people getting notions.

[@blankityblankblank2321]

I've heard a similar thing about venezuela. The cities and towns on the coast have it slightly better since they can fish.

[@jayvhoncalma3458]

​@@hx5525 they're more like the Imperium

[@nyfinest017]

When History of Everything does a face reveal to talk about the subject, you know what he will be explaining will be pretty dark. Keep up the great work.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Technically my 2nd face reveal

[@nyfinest017]

@HistoryofEverythingChannel I remember your first face reveal, but hearing you explain the holodomor in recorded person or face made the subject more serious, and I have a lot of respect for you to do that.

[@cmdrantezscar3368]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel will you upload a uncencored version somewhere? like substack or something?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

@@cmdrantezscar3368 Have a look at the description

[@cmdrantezscar3368]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel oh im blind. thank you.

[@jamesroad316]

And people keep asking why ukraine kept on fighting.

[@nejdudinhorunge]

I’m very disappointed in the fact that the education system here in Sweden was/is completely saturated with lectures about the dangers and atrocities of nazism. But things like the Holodomor where barely mentioned… I dunno, feels so unfair to the people who suffered this cruelty. Thank you for this video. It gave me some perspective. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

[@ericharrison7518]

Starting in 1941, the West collectively tried to rehabilitate the Soviet Unions image globally now that they had joined the fight against Hitler. Unfortunately, that means that basically everything the Soviets did pre 1945 was essentially swept under the rug, because the Allied powers didn't want it to be known that they had yoked themselves to a state that was just as bad as the one they were fighting.

[@signorasforza354]

@@ericharrison7518 based comment

[@Pallanamnjavelet]

Heroyam slava! From another poorly educated Swede.

[@concretejungle9608]

Thank you Swedes , we have so much respect for you and are grateful for your support

[@ivandankob7112]

Soviet ruzzians and Nazis basically used the same textbook to oppress people

[@majditon]

As a Polish person I knew about this for many years and I'm happy that someone spread knowledge about this. It seems that outside of eastern europe almost no one knows how bad soviets were, no one believes that they were as bat as nazis. Communist/tankies arguing that didn't happen or it was conspiracy and fall of everyone but soviet government don't help with that

[@board-qu9iu]

People always act as if siding with the Nazis was way worse than the communist but honestly when your the victims of both, you can’t tell the difference

[@p.strobus7569]

@@board-qu9iu Yes.When the monster who is attacking you is afraid of another monster, the other monster doesn’t look as scary.

[@idioluh5838]

One have to give credit there credit is due. Communists are not simply as bad as Nazis. They actually much worse. The fact its not a widespread point of view is one of reasons why.

[@ivandankob7112]

@@board-qu9iuruzzians love to mention bandera’s collaboration, but would like to omit their own glorification of Stalin who was a military ally of Hitler and is complicit in perishing millions of ussr people and starting ww2

[@dmitryhetman1509]

They were kind of worse than nazis

[@christopherhodgdon8638]

This is my first time commenting on any of your videos.... currently serving in the U.S. army been doing so for almost a decade now. I'm a amateur historian myself and only briefly understood the cost of the Holodomor... until now, it pains me to see that some people in my country (veterans and current serving personnel) don't think we should be helping Ukraine like we are or should leave NATO entirely. I a central in the political pole as you can get when it comes to many talking points in my government today but this is one i fully stand behind... Russia should be stopped at all cost and shown that they can not keep people down, the nations that joined NATO after the USSR know what will happen. We should listen to them

[@gamingforever9121]

Perhaps if the Us government hadn’t wasted money and two decades in the Middle East, people state side would be more inclined to help.

[@christopherhodgdon8638]

@gamingforever9121 possibly, sadly this is where we are right now

[@gamingforever9121]

@@christopherhodgdon8638 which sucks because unlike the Middle East Ukraine actually wants our help.

[@darrinmartin1624]

My friend, you have the most pleasant voice, wonderful to listen to. Even if the subject matter is so dark. Thank you for documenting these horrors.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

@@darrinmartin1624 thank you so much

[@karolkwiecjasz9356]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel I do hope you wont overlook what ukrainians did in Wolyn in the next part. Even if its largely in the past, it should never be forgotten.

[@unknown_error5484]

Prior to first learning (a few weeks ago, admittedly) of, what is, undoubtedly in my eyes, a crime against humanity, I didn't understand why some historians would say that some Ukrainians "welcomed the Nazis as liberators", nor fully grasped why the eastern European counties have reacted like they have in the face of Russian aggression of late (Eg: Poland defense spending + donations, and of course, the super human fight that the Ukrainians are currently engaged in). Until learning of this. It should be part of any schools history (WW2) curriculum as it would put the "BuT RussIA iS OuR Frendz" thing to rest. Mind you, I'm pleased to see this topic getting some attention here on KZbin and PBS America (In the UK... It's a hidden gem of a channel for anyone seeking indi(?) WW2, cold war, etc docs)

[@potatoassassin9590]

PBS America is cracked. It’s like channel 98 on my tv.

[@Dan-ks2qw]

After the defeat in the war for the preservation of sovereignty, the Ukrainians were divided between different states. Ukrainians in Poland knew about the horrors that Soviet power created and also fought against the Poles, so the arrival of the Germans (who were temporary allies in 1918) was perceived by them as liberation. This did not last long and soon Ukrainians from the OUN had to fight against them too, including against their fellow citizens in soviet army. Again, like in times of Great War. Many, who were under the Soviet occupation, met the Germans as liberators, but only Ukrainians, thanks to Russian propaganda, are considered as Nazis. A people who no one was going to free. The people who founded in 1917 the first Ministry of Jews.

[@CarbonatedGravy]

It would in fact be good for russia to have friendly relations with their neighbors and it almost seemed like that was happening for a good while. Obviously not anytime soon now they’re 100% back at it and completely lost all plausible deniability with every word out of their exclusively state run media (including their once lauded military industry) being outright fabricated and baseless, you’re more likely to be correct if you just believe the opposite of every word they say But still Treating someone like a permanent enemy like they did to ww1 germany only gives them reason to hate you in return, it’s not impossible for people to work together with different leadership, russians don’t hate ukrainians and don’t want to kill them hence the low morale and effectiveness. Definitely not getting many friends back after this until at the very least putin is dead and gone

[@ivandankob7112]

@@Dan-ks2qwruzzians just love to omit that the largest national group to collaborate with Hitler were ruzzian themselves, accounting for 1.3 mln members

[@Chikan4i]

When we went through the Holodomor at school, I realized that my grandmother was 8 years old at that time. So I started asking her about how it was. What stuck in my memory the most was that she started using a lot of diminutives (words like doggie, duckie) while talking about the Holodomor. For example, she always said "I really wanted to eatie" (I don't know if there is a diminutive for the word "eat" in English, but you get the point). It seemed that she was speaking on behalf of her eight-year-old self. My grandmother later also survived a Nazi labor camp. Despite all this, she was still incredibly kind and caring.

[@annagrokh4723]

Did she use the word "їсточки"? So did my grandmother. She was 7 years old in 1932. They survived on wild plants, chaff, and a horse skin that my great-grandfather had managed to hide

[@Chikan4i]

@@annagrokh4723 Майже. "Їстоньки"

[@paolocalzone7186]

I tought that my hate for the russian government, wether it is the Tzar, the soviets or the federation, couldn't get bigger but I was wrong

[@louvendran7273]

Don't fool yourself. This has happened at a larger scale by the west in the Americas, Asia & Africa. Stalin killed his own citizens which is tragic but the West kills & steals to this day in the name of freedom. The world is messed up. Even where this video comes from, the Aboriginals were genocided from their land & culture. To this day they are fighting for their liberation.

[@TTFerdinand]

If you've not heard of the so-called Cannibal Island or the Road of Bones, to name a few, then you might still be wrong. The list goes on. And on... And on...

[@Aomnidroid]

My family in this time suffered like the others. My great great grandmother during this famine had thank god had a small amount of grain, and my family also had grass in their yard basically made grass pancakes with this small amount of grain and flour made these pancakes, and my great grandfather and family said they were so disgusting they had to close their nose and eyes to eat it. But…they lived, without that grain and the flour, my father, his brothers and sisters, and me would not be here. It really makes me think:”Im happy to be alive.” (Edited) My parents also tell that there was a family that was less fortunate and starved so bad, the parents ate their own children, and died not long after.

[@AlephTroll]

Ignoring context has and will continue to be mankind’s fatal flaw

[@ericharrison7518]

So what's the context of this then?

[@darkjedi5646]

@@ericharrison7518 hopefully, "why Ukraine still refuses to back down against the Stalin worshipers in the Kremlin"

[@brenatevi]

Someone I knew was defending Putin's aggression back in 2022, that he was right in invading them. I argued at the time that the Ukrainians had already rejected Russia. I was right, but I didn't really understand why they rejected the Russians. I was just thinking that the Ukrainians were just standing up to a bully. I didn't understand what was really at stake. Thank you for giving me the deeper context behind the Ukrainian resistance.

[@Shadeem]

Russia never changes

[@felixfelicis_ll]

Thanks so much for your work! My family is the from the west part, and, at the time, the lands were under Polish rule, so it was slightly easier on food. What I was told by my grandfather, is that his father and oldest brother (with some other people) tried to cross the border with the ussr on the carts full of food, which they gathered with their entire village to help their distant families near Kherson (I don't remember the specific destination), but then at the border they were turned back by soviet guards, and the carts were confiscated. They tried one more time in a month, but sneaking through the woods, and something or someone gave the group out when they've been like 30km deep into soviet part. They had to abandon carts and been chased well beyond the border, and "they were extremely lucky to get back home in one piece, because many similar groups from neighboring villages/towns never returned".

[@Печенькасвареньем-ф3п]

We were taught about the Holodomor at school. I remember how the teachers told us that there were arguments in the ministry about whether it should be shown to children, but it is a very important part of history, so we studied it.

[@p_serdiuk]

Heh. We studied it at school in Ukraine, both as a historical topic and a literary one. Not the first nor the last traumatizing subject matter in our curriculum.

[@travissutherland8502]

Watched on Patreon this morning. Great work.

[@Andrew-se9be]

I had a Ukrainian neighbor who lived across the street when I was young. She was the nicest woman and also had cookies to give to any kids in the neighborhood. I didn't understand at the time, but i always heard from my parents how much she loathed Russia. I begin to understand with your videos. Unfortunately she passed about 10 years ago, in her nineties.

[@harry-John785]

The only thing I can say is thank you for making us truly aware of the true scale of the horror. It’s a hard topic but we must never forget or forgive

[@DepartmentOfResults]

You did great work, man! I can't imagine how hard that script was to write.

[@darrinmartin1624]

Excellent presentation. Your videos on Ukraine have filled in the back story I was missing. I understand the current conflict so much more. I will definitely be picking up the books. I new there was famine in the USSR during the 30s, but I had know idea that another Holocaust was being conducted. Watching your videos made me realize that what I don't know about history could fill the library of Alexandria.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

History is very much like that. We don't even begin to realise just how much we don't know. I feel this way with history in Asia

[@johncollier53]

I think most people think the number of deaths you quote are underestimated especially considering the famines of 21-23 & 46-47. There’s vested interests keeping those numbers lower than they were. I’ll leave it at that.

[@signorasforza354]

True

[@anthonyhayes1267]

I've considered writing a historical fiction book about the Ukrainian and Kazakh genocides. I just can't do it, because I know it will emotionally break me

[@mjeffreya]

The algorithm is going to love this

[@ryanelliott71698]

In the past 20 years the idea of WW2 being the perfect “good guy vs bad guy war” has been turned into shades of grey. Now I’m not saying Nazi germany were good, they weren’t. But this was a war that democratic Finland sided with the Nazi’s and we the west sided with a genocidal communist dictator named Stalin. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say if we didn’t fight Hitler we woulda fought Stalin hands down.

[@coobk]

i mean history was not far off from the USSR to joining the axis... and if sentiment in america had developed slightly differently and no pearl harbour... well the USA might have fought on the axis, there were rich people advocating for it...

[@vincentascapskis9139]

> I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to say if we didn’t fight Hitler we woulda fought Stalin hands down. That's what everybody stuck under Stalin was hoping for, later giving rise to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_betrayal sentiment

[@BlutoandCo]

​@@coobk1939-1941. Who's side was russia on?

[@wombatgirl997]

@@BlutoandCo Russia's

[@gamingforever9121]

@@wombatgirl997inaccurate they (Russia) caused World War Two they allied with the Nazis.

[@HandyMan657]

KZbin forced you out of the shadows to prove you're human. Un real. Add a few expletives in between un and real, feel free to splurge. Thanks again for another outstanding lesson of history. Do take care, mate. Keep safe.

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

I never really had words to describe either the Holocaust or Holodomor. I knew the Holodomor was horrifically barbaric (an understatement), but I never had as good of a grasp on it than I did the Holocaust. Thank you for giving me a better understanding of this atrocity. If only everyone on the fence about Ukraine could see this video. The ones who are against Ukraine are too far gone unfortunately. Only living through the Holodomor themselves could possibly change their mind.

[@deadcat-]

Hello sir, nice to see you in person. That took some serious courage. Well done.

[@yaki_ebiko]

35:03 This would be some of the few videos that I constantly check how far the loading bar is as I kept wishing the video will end in the next five minutes or so, but no, it goes on, and it kept going. My grandfather ran away from the red famine electric boogaloo eastern edition, he never talks much about it, with good reasons, but some of the story survives, and so I know what kind of bullshit human is capable of doing. When he said it's worse than the war, he meant it.

[@louiscarullo6034]

I’m sad we have to see this, that humanity failed in this way, but I’m glad it’s being presented with the weight and tone and depth it deserves (given the time limits)

[@maoama]

Hey. I exist because my Zeda survived the genocide. His parents were among the family's able to escape to Kiev with their remaining wealth and survive. When the Germans came my Zeda was captured during the battle of Kiev. Later liberated by the Americans but fled to France then Italy to avoid Stalin's Great Repatriation. Eventually jumped ship to MTL, Canada, met my Baba who's family fled the reds because her family blood is Russian royalty. I go back to Catherine and I have a pHD historian built family tree document to prove it.

[@BFB_tg]

Thank you for you incredible work our dear friend, this day, on the Day of Independence - seeing your video breaks me to tears, as Independence days of ongoing years is are not a "big party" or "parade of iron", at least not in a sense muscovites would want to see it, it is about looking back and remembering the sacrifice and horrible price paid by our ancestors, parents and now brothers and sisters, for us to have our country, nation, faith and culture, our language and our future. Слава Україні, дякую за твої слова💙💛

[@signorasforza354]

❤❤❤❤

[@AManOfManyCats]

Thank you again for your work on this series.

[@iffracem]

Saw the uncensored version on Patreon. How many times in history have humans done this? And we still are. Many nations have the creation of a famine on others in their history... but Russia seems to have made it an art form.

[@p.strobus7569]

A friend of my father was a survivor and he was the first person to tell me about it. It was Stories for Children level stuff yet still horrible.

[@mikeprimm4077]

We covered the Holocaust when I was in high school, we spent maybe an hour on the holodomor

[@thefish53_68]

Mine didnt even cover it, they just lumped it all together with the rest of the soviet famines. Said famines were only mentioned in a couple of slides at most.

[@DisFantasy]

Holocaust memorials are springing up like daises in the United States.

[@mjeffreya]

I don’t recall learning about Holodomor in school, maybe vague mentions of Soviet famines. So even a scant 1 hour is more than what I had

[@rebelgaming1.5.14]

We barely even mention any of the Soviet Famines in US History. It extensively covers the Holocaust, but this, this, which I cannot even put into words the cruelty of, is entirely absent. We get passing mentions of famines, with slight indication they were intentional, and then it's immediately onto the late Interwar Period, Stalin's purges, and the Nazis' rise to power. I had that class just a year before the Invasion of Ukraine. I hope the curriculum, which in my area was already fairly in-depth for trying to cover everything from the Dawn of Civilization to the Cold War, will be changed to include the Holodomor in it as well. This beyond-barbaric event deserves to be put in the same light as the Holocaust.

[@morganrees3603]

I had 2 class peroids devoted to it in my high school although it was greatly saturated

[@JetLagRecords]

History of Everything, I cant stop watching your videos!

[@Arynightrose0901]

I'll say this is the best meaning way I can: This is sickening, it is horrifying beyond belief, Thank you for making this. Also now that the pigs vid is out: You did this intro in Ukraine didin't you? I thought that the city in the back looked Ukrainian. Hats off to you

[@funkymarco4411]

I am dutch and i know my history and we look like fucking heroes compared to this.

[@board-qu9iu]

I had a history teacher in 10th grade who was Ukrainian and spent some time talking about the Holdomor including how some of his ancestors died showing a png of a list of family members. Honestly I really hate people like BadEmpanada who try underplaying how bad it was just for semantic victories against wiki articles I wish there was more people who gave weight to this being a genocide similar to how many Irish Americans lobby for the Potato famine to the a genocide b/c it needs to be known

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

There's a key difference in forming your arguments rooted with historical fact and forming your arguments and then looking for historical facts

[@board-qu9iu]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel too many people try doing to other and pass it off as evidence or something.

[@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannelsay hello to banderite leaders, clown, if u live in Australia of course

[@signorasforza354]

@@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ Bandera was based. 50 thousands of NKVD murders went to their barrack land in wooden makintosh.

[@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ]

@@signorasforza354 he was pathetic and clowns who praise him are even worse

[@ehpilgrim]

KZbin's going to love this one

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

This versions uber sanitised but yeah

[@ehpilgrim]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel the amount of bulshit that country has been through my God you've got that big famine World War II and all the hell after

[@dogcarman]

I may be alone in thinking this, but screw KZbin.

[@werta5000]

Well that was depressing. I knew about the subject vaguely, because to our knowledge, my grandmothers family was the only survivors of that family due to them leaving Ukraine before the first world war

[@velvetsound]

Thank you. My grandparents lived through this period and then the nazi concentration camps before moving to Australia. I had no idea it was this dark. Thank you for trying their stories.

[@morzyanka5174]

That's an incredible video. Haven't seen a western perspective on these events presented in such detail, until now. Hope your videos will become more popular. Small addition about armed resistance to the forced starvation: it happened in some regions, especially in Kuban region of nowadays Russia. At the time it held a sizeble Ukrainian population, mainly comprised of the remnants of the cossacks and their descendants. During the times of hunger, there were armed uprisings (for example in Poltava Stanitsa in 1932), as well as an armed insurrection (called as "The Greens") - mostly of cossacks. Those uprisings were the reason why Kuban area was held directly by the Red Army, unlike other (ethnically) Ukrainian areas, where resistance was crushed by the militia. Holodomor in the Kuban region is the main reason why it changed from mostly culturally Ukrainian to what it is now - where Ukrainian people are an incredibly small minority

[@signorasforza354]

Proschay Poltavskaya stanitsa…. 😢

[@p_serdiuk]

Kudos from Poltava.

[@thecactusman17]

It is so heartbreaking and depressing to see a movement ostensibly in favor of the common people be one of the greatest contributors to the suffering of those same common people.

[@McNubbys]

Thank you for giving this the respect and attention it deserves.

[@matthewct8167]

Tankies aren’t human

[@gamingforever9121]

Agreed

[@МаксБурый-р2ю]

Commies and rusoids in general aren't

[@shadowleon659]

This proves that Stalin was an even greater mad man than Adolf Hitler. This genocide was just complete mad man.

[@wombatgirl997]

On a slight positive note in this video, that shirt is awesome!

[@gwtpictgwtpict4214]

It's a vyshyvanka, a traditional Ukrainian shirt.

[@derekharris5625]

Got in many arguments with my father about the kulaks. He said that they were holding grain to sell it later. He is not a dumb man, but he is set in his mindset. When my brother or I try to talk to him about stuff like this, he is a stubborn old mule at times. This video makes me angry to the point of shaking, how could people not see what obviously happened.

[@gamingforever9121]

Because communists and the Russian state made dam sure to bury it.

[@vondantalingting]

Oh you pure boy, they saw what happened. They simply didn't bother, or were not willing to face the consequences of their actions. It's very simple to command your soldiers in a computer and not see the devastation of your decisions, compared to treating such sprites as true people who live breath and dream.

[@ОксанаЧернохвостенко]

my dad is hard core commie (I'm from Ukraine) and my mom comes from a family that used to have their own business before soviets. Soviets took everything so my mom didn't see any riches. But my dad used to blaim her for it calling her 'daughter of the enemy of people' and for tricking him into marrying her. People raised in soviet system rarely can be helped - they are brainwashed from early childhood, especially those who lived in cities like my father- there were less of that horror there. I gave up on him long ago, I tried fighting him on this topic when I was in school and we studied Holodomor in history class, that was so depressing. He'll die thinking USSR was the greates country. He misses soviet icecream but refuses to see that it had GULAG flavour

[@derekharris5625]

@user-vf3wb8fo7g the thing is, I am an American, my dad served in the army in the mid 80's on a hawk missile battery. He grew up in the hate of the soviet and I think as a reaction to that he shifted left wing later in life.

[@ОксанаЧернохвостенко]

@@derekharris5625 much of the hate was justified though, it was that bad. Because of war I had to move to western part of Ukraine and oh boy, people here, especially old people, hate USSR and Russia with passion. In Kharkiv where I grew up people usually had warm fillings for russians, many of us had relatives there (including me). Not anymore though. Russia opened up archives for couple of years somewhere around 2010s so my gran was able to find out her brother died in german concentration camp in 1942, but now archives are closed again, at least for ordinary people. I can only imagive what can be found there. The dream of mine is to get Russia to open all the archives of USSR times for everyone to find out what's been happening, not only ukrainians, kazakhs, belorussian people, but for russians. It's important to force open their eyes to their beloved state's wrongdoings. They need it more that anyone else.

[@ArtemCheberyak]

Thank you for this. Having this from a foreigner is a luxury we only had from Garrett Jones at the time. I know that my ancestors are from Zaporizhzhia region, but we know names only up to my great-grandfather and we know that his family "came from elsewhere" to his hometown. Coincidentally, they should've moved in right around the time Holodomor happened. Coincidentally, engineering is our family's specialty: my father, my mother, my grandfather and great-grandfather on dad's side... We have no knowledge or evidence, but I wouldn't be surprised if my ancestors were deemed enemies of the Soviet state for being too smart and having too much food at home, so they fled to the central part of Ukraine

[@antonruss9116]

This was hellish but what is frightening is history is rhyming in Ukraine right now stay strong Ukraine

[@TheSupremeAuthority]

3.9million people gone in a year. That’s 1 person every 7.5 seconds. 345 people gone in the length of this episode. Using the Stadium measure that’s over 3/4 a stadium week. That is absolutely mind blowing

[@misterthegeoff9767]

Thank you for making this. I feel sick to my stomach in a way I have only felt before when visiting Dachau, the resistance museum in Oslo and the Grenzmuseum Schifflersgrund on the old border between the DDR and West Germany. All places where I was standing on the site where it happened. You managed to convey the horror of this to me while I sat in the living room on a clear bright day. Thank you for educating me.

[@Niinsa62]

Brilliant video about a very sad part of European history. I have heard of the Holodomor, but I did not know much about how horrible it was. Now I do.

[@InquisitorXarius]

Sorry I’m late HoE, I just wanted to ask if you could consider covering the Circassian Genocide or the Southeast Asian Holodomor committed by Japan during WW2.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Not for a long time. Genocides are genuinely really hard to write and the next episode is quite literally the Holocaust. So I'm going to just avoid them for a little bit

[@InquisitorXarius]

@@HistoryofEverythingChannel Understandable, god speed comrade. Also don’t please forget Aktion T4 as it is an often ignored part of the Holocaust and it directly targeted people like myself.

[@board-qu9iu]

KnG did a video on the Circassian Genocide if you want to check it out. Also curious of the South Asian Holdomor, never heard of that

[@allanpberry5706]

My mother was from Ireland and was still living there when this all happened (She later moved to Canada, where I am), and she would tell me about this atrocity whenever the holocaust was brought up. She wasn't being anti-Semitic, she would say that the Holocaust was horrible as well, but she would point out to me how little was mentioned about how Stalin killed so many people by starvation (this would be in the eighties when she was telling me). My mother was also a dietitian so she could describe how people were not even able to digest food because they were so starved, just as you did in the video. I know this was hard for you but it's an important part of history that people need to know about so thank you for making this.

[@BigMakBattleBlog]

as a brit ive often said that the Ukranians havibg cause to disilike the Russians is about the same as the Irish having cause to dislike the Brits. Hitler had rokkie numbers compared to Stalin. its a shame some countrys and peoples suffering is Ignored

[@googlehomemini2059]

Thanks for covering things properly, it can’t be easy, was good to see you tho! 🇦🇺

[@chriswatonek5549]

Absolutely great work

[@brucculi349]

Love the video. The only thing I'd suggest as feedback is more direct citations for specific claims (i.e. some kind of small text with the source, pages, paragraphs, etc.)

[@AlexEffractor]

I've been in one of deoccupied villages with humanitarian aid mission. There was a school. Destroyed. The only thing that survived was a Memory Book. The book, that contains names of people, died during Holodomor in Dnipropetrovsk oblast. Each page contains 100+ people. The book thickness is more than 10 sm. 1244 pages. More, than 100 000 people died in a single oblast. And there was a metal piece of russian bomb inside the book. First, they killed all those people, than they wanted to eradicate even the memory of those people. But, they failed.

[@chadmicmac5029]

Thank you

[@RockNRoll_Knight]

The timing of this video seems quite interesting, seeing how it was released at ~1:00 (Kyiv time) on 24th of August (Ukrainian Independence Day)

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Honestly I realised this after I posted it. A coincidence but a welcome one

[@thejudgmentalcat]

BION, I first heard about the Holodomor reading about Chikatilo the Soviet child murderer...apparently he and his family had endured it

[@ChorltonBrook]

17:28 I read that it was to balance out the Poles & the Ukrainians. Poland did have a long history of subjugating the Ukrainians & the Lviv/Lvov universities only taught in German & Polish as the educated jobs were not for Ukrainians. Archduke Wilhelm gave Ukrainians a seat in parliament, which they’d never had, to balance the Polish votes rather than ‘subjugate’ them. Trying to give stability to the Austro-Hungarian regime?

[@POCKET-SAND]

This was done to play the Poles and Ukrainians against one another so that both sides would be too preoccupied hating each other to hate the empire. The Habsburgs were doing the exact same strategy further south in Croatia. They gave numerous political rights and privileges to the Serbian minority of Croatia, knowing it would cause the Croats to resent the Serbs. The Serbs were greatly overrepresented in the Croatian government compared to their actual numbers living in Croatia.

[@Jfk2Mr]

Due to being large minority, concentrated in border regions of Prussia/Germany, Russia and Austria/Austria-Hungary, all three countries applied various means to reduce the risk of another insurrection (which in case of Austria happened in 1848, put down in few weeks and afterwards, Austrians bribed peasants to just murder landowners, which included buying severed heads) - both Russia and Prussia went hard with russification/germanisation, making "who is the enemy" easy - for ones in Greater Poland those were Germans, for former congressional Poland, Russians were the worst. However Austrians went with antagonising neighbouring ethnic groups, like mentioned Poles vs Ukrainians in Galicia, Croats vs Serbs or Poles vs Hungarians in Tatra mountains

[@pavlomorhun]

⁠@@POCKET-SANDbut in “eastern Galicia” polish was minority… But if count all polish-Ukrainian land in Austria

[@dustinyancey2194]

Excellent video as always.

[@basroos_snafu]

You make outstanding documentaries, thank you for that. And/but please get the voice-over sorted, how did you manage to make it sound like this? The footage deserves better audio, if you need some help regarding this matter please let me know! Keep up the good work!

[@adampollack6065]

Thank you.

[@BigMakBattleBlog]

this whole series helps me know what im fighting for in greater depth. i thankyou

[@scevahful]

Thank you for sharing this. It's so upsetting that people won't look at the past to see the reasons for resisting russian oppression

[@Serhiy_Fomenko.]

Oh, that... thing. Thank you for using your time to tell people what moscow did to us. We did not forget, we will not forgive. Ми не забули. Ми не забудемо. Ми не пробачили. Ми не пробачимо.

[@Dan-ks2qw]

Thanks for the coverage of this extremely important and heavy, in all respects. I, as your Ukrainian subscriber, value it very much. I would also like to supplement that in the West people knew about Holodomor. Knew, thanks to Malcolm Muggeridge and Gareth Jones. However, the articles of Malcolm were published anonymously, edited in the middle of the newspaper, and Gareth slandered and bullyied by his colleagues, who claimed him a lyer.

[@jonathanpenado5342]

I bought Red Famine a week ago and my God, is it a tough read. But heart-wrenching events like the Holodomor are events that NEED to be told, cause if not, then should an event similar to this one happen again, then we have no one to blame but ourselves.

[@dogcarman]

For this you have earned eternal gratitude. And a new patron.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

Thank you

[@aesti]

while visiting norway, i was amazed by the random graffitties and chalk drawings on the streets, museum exhibits of recent events all in support of ukraine. they promote discussion, and encourage anyone not educated to look into it in online media to form their own unbiased opinion. meanwhile geographically close to the conflict in former hungary, present day orbanistan, ethnically roma hungarian speaking families who fled from ukraine are being evicted for no apparent reason other than they are unwanted and aren't considered people. all the while viktor orban vetoes any and every eu/nato help reasoning "ethnically hungarians living in the zakarpathians aren't provided bilingual education" and "the only way to have peace is to stop this war at all cost [with intended disregard to the existence of ukraine]". it's impressive how hard we have to deny a neighbouring country's history and grief, when we as well as all ex-soviet countries suffered similar oppression not that much later

[@signorasforza354]

Well, traitors never change. The elite formed by ussr didn’t go anywhere. Every ex eastern block country is infested with them.

[@RunawayTrain2502]

Doing a video on the Asharshylyk (in practice the Kazakh name for the Holodomor) might be intresting as its an often forgotten part of an often forgotten tragedy.

[@signorasforza354]

Yes. We should not forget that the ruzzia is a serial killer.

[@cmw458]

Thank you for making this

[@SmoggieManx]

Not gonna lie i put off watching this one because i knew it would be a heavy one, but glad I've taken the time to sit down and view, excellently done video mate Also great job of trying to visualise the scale of the victims, its still nearly impossible to wrap your head round, but the stadium does put it in some perspective

[@bienewolf6917]

My mother told me, our great-great parents were the Kulaks, middle-to-upperclass villagers. They exchanged all of their gold, money, jewelry and icons for a small bucket of beets. The thought of my existence being possible only because of that bucket is blood-curling

[@johnlavette9471]

I'm grateful that yourself, Lazerpig, and Animarchy are working so hard to provide the information and examination that you do! This could not have been easy to write and produce. Thank you!

[@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъ]

Ah, yes, the trio of pathetic propagandists

[@UltraJ3t]

@@АлександрЛюбавин-э9ъas aposed to the pedik that is putin. Who only says the truth

[@romanbabynyuk946]

My great-grandfather was a guard at a kolkhoz, and he managed to steal a bag of flour so that my family would not starve. The good man he is, he shared some with our neighbor. This neighbor repaid him by promptly reporting him to the authorities, leading to him being sent to Siberia. He managed to survive there and eventually return. Though I was too young to remember much of him, I am told he became a very cold man with an extreme drinking habit, though fortunately never violent.

[@signorasforza354]

PTSD is a hell in the soul which is never ending. I hope your grandfather has found peace. We should never forget our ancestors. And what was done to them by muscovites.

[@dergfmmodel8379]

Slava Ukraini. May ukraine never fall!

[@astoran3147]

"Wheat was tall like a telephone poles, after Stalin it was spaced out as such"

[@eldorados_lost_searcher]

"We must gather the Russian lands, and bind the Russians and Little Russians together against the Anglo-American conspiracy." Ukraine: Hey! Hey, I've seen this! It's a classic!

[@p.strobus7569]

It’s an old favorite in Moscow. “We need the Circassian lands, we do not need the Circassian people.” Gen. Yermolov

[@signorasforza354]

The funniest thing is that Little Russia and Big Russia was constructed by Greek Orthodox priests same as Little Greece and Big Greece. Where the Little Greece was an actual Greece and Big Greece was Greek colonies. It’s like Romanians would fight Italy to prove that they are actual romans.

[@michaelhead7483]

This was tough. I have so much to say but it wont matter. People are so ideologically locked you cant get through to them.

[@wewemanicn]

Once again the Makhnovshchina don't even get a footnote :(

[@vitaliitomas8121]

Because it happened like a decade earlier

[@sonofjack6286]

When the war with Russia started, I was worried for Ukraine because I didn't like Putin and thought of it being making Ukraine part of Moscow's empire. Then I supported them when I heard of Bucha and Russia's army floundering not far into Ukraine's territory. Then I was fully onboard with the news of the Kharkiv offensive by Ukraine and their retaking of Kherson. This series has helped make me realize that Ukraine deserves more than much of Europe to be its own nation of its own, and why Russia doesn't deserve any of it.

[@katamarankatamaranovich9986]

I don't need to watch this video, I know everything you about to say really. I feel like I disrespecting your work by not watching it, but stuff like this gets hard to watch when you already familiar with a subject. Point being, I ran a video and leaving this comment for algorithm for other people to watch and learn what I already know. And also to thank you for your work shining a spotlite on it. Thank you.

[@kobban63]

ah great this is releasing on my bday. horror

[@Syndr1]

Hi history, great opening! You're hiding your face in shadows cuz of the tears aren't you?

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

No I just was recording for a while and forgot to adjust the exposure for the lighting 🤣

[@EmyrDerfel]

​@@HistoryofEverythingChannel if you'd said it was intentional I'd have believed you. As it is, it really draws the eye to the city outside the window, flagging that though your face is present, this really isn't about you.

[@HistoryofEverythingChannel]

In that case it was totally intentional

[@solaraura8278]

I knew this part was coming, and it was as hard to listen to as I thought it would be. I agree though, that people need to learn these horrifying parts of history. No matter how hard it is, people need to learn these things. Great video. I understand how hard it must have been to make a script for something like this, and how hard it must have been to make this video. But you have done good work here.

[@VoltageLP]

A lot of ukrainians fled (unsurprisingly) to the agrarian Argentina and became farmers there

[@FrankStienhans]

thank you

[@bastianstiefler3390]

Thank you from the very depths of my heart for your important work. I have never in my life wanted to so desperately stop watching a video while at the same time being unable to stop. The immense pain you were able to transport with it was allmost unbareable. But I am very glad to have watched this. As a German I simply must believe that learning of these horrors will prevent others in the future.

[@jamesdemers7469]

I've worked with some Ukrainians and it's hard for them to talk about this

[@darrinmartin1624]

Awesome stadium, its just a little smaller than my university football stadium.

[@mrreziik]

Jeez this is a dark one

[@nikitachirkov2000]

My grandgrand parents lived through Holodomor, and I can't even tell you how much it changed them. The way they valued the food was telling much more about Holodomor, than any book or story. Food for them was something holy, they were so thankfull for having each meal in their life.