Opinion: Holodomor reminds world to act against atrocity

In 1932-33, a terrible famine gripped Ukraine. Brigades of activists under the supervision of the Soviet state security service were ordered to go to villages and requisition grain and other foodstuffs from the peasants. At the beginning of 1933, measures were introduced to stop peasants from leaving their districts of residence. Both the coerced removal of food from the villagers and the controls placed on their movement, condemned millions, mostly in the countryside, to a slow and agonizing de