The 1930s famine was a combination of drought, flooding, and mismanagement, as I already said. Further, the Kulaks, wealthy bourgeois farmers, magnified matters by killing their own crops in the midst of a famine rather than letting the Red Army collectivize them. The Politburo was also kept in the dark about how bad the famine was getting:

From: Archive of the President of the Russian Federation. Fond 3, Record Series 40, File 80, Page 58.

Excerpt from the protocol number of the meeting of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist party (Bolsheviks) “Regarding Measures to Prevent Failure to Sow in Ukraine, March 16th, 1932.

The Political Bureau believes that shortage of seed grain in Ukraine is many times worse than what was described in comrade Kosior’s telegram; therefore, the Political Bureau recommends the Central Committee of the Communist party of Ukraine to take all measures within its reach to prevent the threat of failing to sow [field crops] in Ukraine.

Signed: Secretary of the Central Committee – J. STALIN

Letter to Joseph Stalin from Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine regarding the course and the perspectives of the sowing campaign in Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.

There are also isolated cases of starvation, and even whole villages [starving]; however, this is only the result of bungling on the local level, deviations [from the party line], especially in regard of kolkhozes. All rumours about “famine” in Ukraine must be unconditionally rejected. The crucial help that was provided for Ukraine will give us the opportunity to eradicate all such outbreaks [of starvation].

Letter from Joseph Stalin to Stanislaw Kosior, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, April 26th, 1932.

Comrade Kosior!

You must read attached summaries. Judging by this information, it looks like the Soviet authority has ceased to exist in some areas of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. Can this be true? Is the situation invillages in Ukraine this bad? Where are the operatives of the OGPU [Joint Main Political Directorate], what are they doing?

Could you verify this information and inform the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist party about taken measures.

Sincerely, J. Stalin

Muggeridge and Jones reported on the famine. Völkischer Beobachter reported on it as intentional, and then spread the story around further. We are not qustioning the legitimacy of the famine, but whether or not it was intentional, which all evidence post-opening of the soviet archives points to it not being intentional.

"Holod" means famine, "mor" means death. "Holodomor" as a word means "death by death by hunger," and was invented in the 1980s as a term to describe the idea of an inflicted famine, with indirect ties to the Holocaust. This plays directly into Double Genocide Theory, a form of Holocaust trivialization, which is similar to what comparing the very real and intentional genocide of Palestinians to the unintentional tragedy of the 1930s famine in Ukraine and the areas surrounding it.

EP Today is European, and we already know their history of anti-communism, as well as their willing participation in the genocide of Palestine. There is a political reason to play down the genocide of Palestinians and play up ideas of genocide committed by communists in Europe, it serves their anti-communist and pro-imperialist interests. Modern scholars on genocide do not consider the 1930s famine to have been a genocide, but that it was a combination of mismanagement and adverse weather conditions.

I implore you to do some more research on this topic, and not just from the same sources known for downplaying the very same ongoing genocide of Palestinians you are valiantly trying to highlight. I say this out of a comradely desire to align on Palestinian liberation in a way that doesn't cede the narrative to the same groups perpetrating it.