#holodomor

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So what kind of vibe would you get from being there?

Hunger, prison, deportations

Easy access to food? clothes you like? travel?

Sex education? LGBTQ+? Safety?

Remember that you have nothing of your own. Do you even deserve it?

Examples:

“Men are trash” and “kill all men” = radfem dogwhistles that are steeped in transandrophobia and a lack of understanding for the experiences of men of color, trans men, disabled men, and people with genders that don’t neatly sort into “man” or “woman” (esp. multigendered and genderfluid people)

“Haha West Virginia should die because they voted for Trump!” = classism, lack of understanding about the struggles of people of color and working class people (many of whom are also POC) in Appalachia

“Religion is inherently evil” = offensive to ethnoreligions, marginalized religions, and religions or churches popular among POC.

“If you don’t reblog/donate/pay attention to the news 24/7, then you’re a bad person” = ableist, offensive to people with burnout or moral OCD or anyone who does not have the time or resources to be involved in activism 24/7

“[X people] are *always* privileged in every single context whatsoever” = frequently Americentric and ignorant of global realities (ex: Christian groups oppressed in some Muslim-majority countries); often eradicates solidarity and ignores lived experiences (i.e. the “tme/tma” dichotomy, “trans men have male privilege”, etc.)

“Women should never wear makeup/shave their legs/etc.” = radfemmy, ableist to people with sensory issues, transphobic to people who experience gender euphoria from these activities, ignores the ways in which women of color are frequently stripped of their femininity in white supremacist worldviews and thus traditionally feminine activities are often important to them

Pro-Palestine activists who blur the line into antisemitism = clear-cut case of lack of intersectionality and nuance, NOT evidence that opposing the modern nation-state of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians is inherently antisemitic.

“If you don’t use the exact right words then you’re a bigot even if you didn’t know any better” = ableist, Americentric, ignorant of people who may not have access to these words or concepts

“America is bad so China/Iran/the Soviet Union etc. must be good.” = infantilizes non-Americans by treating them as inherently better or incapable of oppression and bigotry, ignores serious realities like the genocide of the Uyghurs or the Holodomor

1) In the latter case, these people perceive Russia’s actions against Ukraine as a civil war, where there is simply a population with two different opinions, rather than an act of (repeated) genocide by one nation against another on the basis of national identity.

2) And when Ukrainians begin to actively insist on being seen and recognized by these same people as an independent nation, it then follows that dislike on the basis of nationality can indeed exist — and the question then arises as to how much harm one group can actually inflict on another through real, criminal actions.

As a result, this forces a recognition of the unequal scale of harm:

Russians are a privileged group that can contribute to the destruction of Ukrainian identity in numerous ways (the abduction of children and their “re-education”, the destruction of cultural sites, the burning of books in the Ukrainian language and the banning of its use in occupied territories, the refusal to recognize Ukrainians as a distinct nation, spreading harmful stereotypes and supporting the narrative of a “lesser” culture), while Ukrainians do not possess comparable power over Russians in a national context and can, at most, express discomfort with sharing space with them — especially when they do not know those individuals’ views regarding the actions of other Russians.

Therefore, in order to avoid acknowledging this reality, such Westerners attempt to impose a sense of guilt on Ukrainians for this discomfort.

@ euromaidanpress :

"On 22 November 2025, Ukraine observes Holodomor Commemoration Day, honoring the millions who perished during the 1932–33 famine deliberately created by the Stalin-led Soviet government. “Death solves all problems. No human, no problem,” said Joseph Stalin.

The Holodomor targeted Ukraine’s population and its national identity through state-imposed starvation, grain requisitions, and the criminalization of basic survival.

At the height of the famine, an estimated 28,000 people died every day—17 every minute, 1,000 every hour. Demographic studies place the overall death toll in Ukraine between 3 and 7 million, excluding Ukrainians outside the Ukrainian SSR who also starved, the hundreds of thousands deported during collectivization, and the many religious, cultural, and political leaders executed in the same period.

Despite holding substantial grain reserves and continuing to export agricultural products, the Soviet authorities denied the famine, rejected international aid, and enforced policies such as the “Law of Spikelets,” which punished starving people—including with execution—for gathering leftover grain in the fields.