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==Results==

==Results==

The total results of the famine were horrific. Up to 14.5 million people were starved to death.<ref name=Conquest>Robert Conquest ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine''. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-505180-7.</ref>  In the years 1932-1933, between 7 and 10 million people were killed in [[Ukraine]] alone.<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia{{of}}ukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages\T\E\Terror.htm Encyclopedia of Ukraine]</ref>  It is estimated that over 25,000 people died a day, 1000 an hour, and 17 a minute. Many of these victims were children. The total number of deaths surpassed those of [[World War I]].<ref name=Conquest /> [[Cannibalism]] was reported across the country<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref>.

The total number of deaths surpassed those of [[World War I]].  In the years 1930-1937, collectivization and famine killed up to 11 million people across the Soviet Union, including 6.5 million Ukrainians and about 3 million children. The 1932-1933 famine killed 5 million people in [[Ukraine]], 18.8% of the population.<ref name=Conquest>Robert Conquest, [http://www.ditext.com/conquest/16.html The Death Roll] in ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine''. Oxford University Press, 1986. ISBN 0-19-505180-7.</ref>  At the height of the famine, over 25,000 people died every day, 1,000 an hour, or 17 a minute.  [[Cannibalism]] was reported across the country.<ref>[http://www.ucca.org/famine/ Ukrainian Congress Committee of America]</ref>

 

{{cquote|"Our neighbour killed his wife, dismembered her body and was seen to make soup of her."<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3229000.stm BBC News ''Ukraine marks great famine anniversary'']</ref>}}

{{cquote|"Our neighbour killed his wife, dismembered her body and was seen to make soup of her"<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3229000.stm BBC News ''Ukraine marks great famine anniversary'']</ref>}}  

Famous [[Russian]] author [[Boris Pasternak]], who visited the area, commented:

 

{{cquote|"What I saw could not be expressed in words.  There was such inhuman, unimaginable misery, such a terrible disaster, that it began to seem almost abstract, it would not fit within the bounds of consciousness. I fell ill. For an entire year I could not write."<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963051,00.html TIME ''The War Against the Peasants'']</ref>}}

It is estimated that the famine claimed the lives of 10-20% of Ukraine's population.<ref>http://ukrainians.rutgers.edu/holodomor.htm</ref>  Famous [[Russian]] author [[Boris Pasternak]], who visited the area, commented{{cquote|"What I saw could not be expressed in words.  There was such inhuman, unimaginable misery, such a terrible disaster, that it began to seem almost abstract, it would not fit within the bounds of consciousness. I fell ill. For an entire year I could not write."<ref>[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963051,00.html TIME ''The War Against the Peasants'']</ref>}}

==Cover-up and "Controversy"==

==Cover-up and "Controversy"==