Soviet Collectivisation News Today

In Ukraine, the tide of history is full. While Europe frets about immigration and inflation, and while the US groans at the choice between Biden and Trump, Ukrainians are fighting for their very existence.

14 March 2022 - Six weeks ago, as Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, this column described how Stalin killed 3.9 million Ukrainians by starvation in the early 1930s. He inflicted famine upon that country in order to collectivise agriculture, but also to destroy Ukrainian national consciousness.

31 January 2022 - Among the things the tsars, the Bolsheviks, and Vladimir Putin have in common is antipathy to the notion of an independent Ukraine. Until it declared its independence in 1991, so precipitating the end of the Soviet empire, most of Ukraine and its rich farmland had been a Russian possession for three centuries.