Holodomor
CHRONOLOGY OF THE FAMINE YEARS. PART X
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October 1932
During the month of October in 1932, the pages of Svoboda carried only a few news items about the famine in Ukraine. On October 1, Svoboda received news of the official Soviet press reactions to the situation in the Soviet Union. “The Soviet press has noticed that there is an increasing amount of anti-Bolshevik activity in the villages,” Svoboda reported. According to stories from the newspaper Pravda, kulaks stole not only grain from the collective farms but also machinery parts that were necessary for the grain harvest. Izvestia stated that the peasants were leaving collective farms en masse as a result of kulak agitation.