Soviet Prime Minister Who Starved Ukraine—Then Paid the Price
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Vlas Chubar rose from a Ukrainian peasant family to become one of the most powerful political figures in Soviet Ukraine. A Bolshevik from his youth, he built his career during the Russian Revolution and Civil War before becoming chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1923 — effectively the head of its government. His years in power coincided with one of the darkest periods in Ukraine’s history. At the end of the 1920s, Joseph Stalin launched forced collectivisation across the Soviet Union. Private farms were absorbed into state-controlled collectives, grain quotas increased, and resistance was met with confiscations and deportations. In Soviet Ukraine, these policies contributed to the catastrophic famine of 1932–33 known as the Holodomor, in which millions of people died. Chubar occupied a deeply contradictory position. He saw the worsening conditions himself and warned Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov about widespread starvation. Yet
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