Holodomor is the name used to designate the genocide for starvation of over 6 million people, perpetrated by the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian population in the years 1932 - 1933.
Ukrainians suffered terrible punishment, because they were accused of challenging the collective property system.
All agricultural resources were requisitioned and the population starved. A quarter of the rural population, men, women and children, was thus exterminated by starvation.