Stalin's crash program to collectivize agricultural production caused the great famine in the Ukraine in the 1930s.

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Yes, because of sheer misguidance and mismanagement the great famine in the early 1960s may have claimed 20 million to 25 million lives.

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Ukrainians on the great famine.

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Their center's groundbreaking in 1999 began by dedicating a memorial to the "Great Hunger, " or the mid-19th century potato famine that led to death, disease and mass emigration, Moriarty said.

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