In 1946, the Soviets ushered in their first year after victory in the Great Patriotic War. As a result of the devastation of the war, the agricultural production on which the Soviets depended for their survival was severely hit. In 1945, the Soviet Union produced only 70% of its pre-war grain, but the Soviets were not afraid, because they were able to defeat the powerful Germany and naturally allow their agricultural production to resume as soon as possible. However, as the people ushered in the first year of the war with great joy, a huge famine befell them, and the Soviets had to face the third great famine in Soviet history.
In 1946, the central black soil region of the Soviet Union suffered a severe drought, which led to a sharp reduction in summer harvest production that year. The Soviets, who had experienced the two great famines of the 1920s and 1930s, became alarmed as soon as the disaster occurred, and immediately appealed to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, hoping that their leader Stalin would be able to provide assistance to the disaster areas and adjust the grain consumption plan to cope with the famine. However, the response received by the disaster areas is no different from that of a decade ago. The position of Stalin and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union remained that they would ask the kulaks without grain. So a natural disaster once again evolved into a class struggle.
This year's famine, the most affected nature is still in the Ukrainian region, where the people have just endured the ravages of war, and now they have suffered disasters, where are there so many rich peasants? However, the Soviet government did not care so much, the kulaks were not enough for the middle peasants to come together, as long as they could meet the central targets, everything else was easy to say. Once again, Ukraine became a hell on earth. There is no need to say more about the scene of famine, every famine in human history will cause countless tragedies of cannibalism. And this time, because the Soviets had just defeated a mighty Germany, many of the victims believed that their government was strong and that their leader, Stalin, would not abandon them. Therefore, many peasants handed over the only surplus grain in their hands, believing that the government only collected grain for better distribution, and that after completing the quota task, the specially allocated relief grain would soon be distributed.
The chairman of a collective farm once wrote to Khrushchev, then first secretary of the Central Committee of Ukraine: "Comrade Khrushchev, we have completed the quota task of handing over the grain of the state. We handed over everything and had nothing ourselves. We are convinced that the Government and the Party will never forget us and will give us assistance. However, Khrushchev was also powerless, and the grain handed over was distributed only by the Cpsu Central Committee headed by Stalin. However, Khrushchev and other leaders of the disaster areas also repeatedly reacted to the situation to the CPSU Central Committee, but all they got was Stalin's rough insults.
In fact, at that time, the Soviet Union was in the Yalta system, and there was no interruption in exchanges with western countries such as the United States and Britain, and the two camps were still nominally allies in the joint fight against fascism, so they could apply for assistance from the international community. However, Stalin, in order to maintain the face and position of the Soviet Union in the international community, blocked the news of the famine in the Soviet Union. As a result, the Soviet Union received little external help during this famine.
However, the sadness of things does not stop there. At the same time that the Soviet people were hungry and Stalin refused to ask for help, the Soviet Union also played the role of a "leading big brother" in their camp. In 1946, natural disasters also occurred in Poland, but they were not as severe as the Ukrainian regions of the Soviet Union. Faced with the difficulties of his younger brother, Stalin generously donated a large amount of grain to Poland, and a large part of this grain was the life-saving food of Ukrainian farmers. Even more tragically, because the Poles did not know that the Ukrainians had suffered from famine, they also expressed dissatisfaction with the assistance given by the Soviet Union. The Soviet writer Vasilevskaya visited relatives in warsaw, the polish capital, during this period, but heard many complaints from Poles, who were dissatisfied with the Soviet Union for giving them a lot of rye because they were not accustomed to rye bread. But they don't know that Ukrainians can't even eat! After World War II, Ukrainians and Poles carried out large-scale ethnic cleansing against each other, and at this time, poles ate the life-saving food of Ukrainians, which is ironic enough!
The Great Soviet Famine of 1946 starved millions of Soviets to death, at least a third of whom were Ukrainians. And this is only one of the countless sufferings that the Soviet Union has brought to Ukraine, so it seems that it is not unreasonable for ukrainians to hate the Soviet Union!