Holodomir

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The City Centre farmer's market has moved into the city hall for the winter, but got bumped down to t he carpark level because of a community booking upstairs. As I walked in and saw all the old men, and little kids in drab Scout-type uniforms, and heard the not-English-something-Slavic speeches, I kind of wondered what it was; as I was coming up

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[nialla42]

I hate to say I had never heard of this, but since I graduated high school in 1988, I'm not surprised. We don't have a large Ukrainian population here that I'm aware of, though maybe there are in the more metro areas of Dallas.

I'm also a farm kid, and the idea of having good crops yet starving to death is horrific. To have it done in a way that turned the victims into thieves because they were trying to survive and therefore stealing "state property" and punished severely for it is barbaric.

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Thank you for commenting!

There are such a stack of horrors in the last century, and we all know the stories that come through us via family, school, media. But the combination of being exposed to Ukrainian culture and identifying with fellow "breadbasket" farmers keeps it in my awareness.

I didn't know you were a farmkid, too :)

[nialla42]

My father's family has been farming in this area for over 100 years. As far as I can trace back, they've always been farming. My father is the last though. "Family farms" are going under unless they become big business with a family farm name.

We're primarily wheat and milo, but have also had corn, soybeans, and even cotton way back when it was king here. We've also got cattle, but not in huge numbers.

As someone who's had to help get grain in the ground, out of the field, and into storage bins, I can't imagine doing all that work, then being told I couldn't have any bread.