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Guest Review: Bitter Harvest (2017)

By: CineMuseFilms Everyone knows about the Holocaust but few have even heard the word Holodomor. It means ‘death by starvation’ and it refers to the Ukrainian mass famine deliberately engineered by Joseph Stalin during 1932-33. Scholars label it as genocide and estimate between 7 and 10 million deaths were directly linked to Stalin’s policy of depopulating the Ukraine. More accurate numbers are not available because long-standing Russian secrecy has only recently eased enough for the story...