Harvest of Despair
Released: April 15, 1985Runtime: 55 min
Via the New York Times: "...a frankly biased, angry recollection of the great, "man-made" famine of 1932-1933 in which up to seven million people starved to death in the Ukraine. It is the film's thesis that Stalin was directly responsible by his ruthless expropriation of virtually all of the grain harvested in the Ukraine over a two-year period."
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Alexander Bykovets
as Survivor Poltava
Lubov Drashevska
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Motria Dutka
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Petro Grigorenko
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Andor Hencke
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Josyp Hirniak
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Lev Kopelev
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James E Mace
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Ivan Majstrenko
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Metropoliten Mstyslav
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