Soviet Scars

di Sarah Willards (Autore)

Celestial Publishing, 2025

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. Behind the facade of Soviet progress and industrialization lay a hidden catastrophe—one of the deadliest man-made famines in human history. This powerful three-in-one volume offers a chilling exploration of the widespread starvation that swept through the Soviet Union during the early 1930s, focusing especially on the orchestrated suffering inflicted upon Ukraine and other rural regions. Through deeply researched narratives, it reveals how Stalin's regime used food as a weapon, implementing brutal policies of forced collectivization, grain requisition, and political repression that led to the deaths of millions. The first section examines the Holodomor, the Ukrainian famine many historians recognize as a genocide, deliberately engineered to crush national resistance and enforce loyalty to the Communist regime. The second account, Stalin’s Harvest of Despair, uncovers the mechanisms of state terror that targeted peasant populations across the Soviet Union, exposing the systematic confiscation of food and the silencing of dissent. Finally, the third section provides a detailed overview of the Soviet Famine of 1932–1933, drawing from survivor testimonies, archival documents, and newly uncovered evidence to paint a comprehensive picture of the scope, impact, and historical denial surrounding these atrocities. This sobering collection shines a light on the cruelty and consequences of authoritarian control, and the enduring scars left on generations who lived—and died—behind the Iron Curtain.

• Autore: Sarah Willards
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 05:20:10
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Celestial Publishing
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9798318356773