Stalin, Our Contemporary | by Timothy Snyder - Project Syndicate

In the autumn of 1930, Joseph Stalin enforced a policy that changed the course of history, and led to tens millions of deaths across the decades and around the world. Eighty years later, Stalin's world remains with us. NEW HAVEN – Eighty years ago, in the autumn of 1930, Joseph Stalin enforced a policy that changed the course of history, and led to tens of millions of deaths across the decades and

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We now know, after 20 years of discussion of Soviet documents, that in 1932 Stalin knowingly transformed the collectivization famine in Ukraine into a deliberate campaign of politically motivated starvation. Stalin presented the crop failure as a sign of Ukrainian national resistance, requiring firm