Holodomor
CHRONOLOGY OF THE FAMINE YEARS. PART II
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March 1932
On March 1, 1932, Svoboda carried news of the killings of Ukrainian peasants trying to escape to Rumania from Ukraine. The headline read: “Bolsheviks have once again shot Ukrainian peasants trying to cross the Dnister.” The secret police killed 200 men, women and children who were fleeing from Ukraine and Soviet government tyranny. The story, datelined Bucharest, explained that as the peasants approached the middle of the frozen river, the Communist police began shooting. When the shooting stopped, corpses lay strewn over the ice.