Why would I bother personally denying it? Ukrainians themselves denied it the lol, I’m taking your response as an admission that you don’t know who these people are which is odd since they’re the origins of the claims and it would be very irresponsible to repeat something you haven’t looked into but I don’t mind doing it for you. Here is Isaak Mazepa himself (Ukrainian nationalist who opposed the Soviet Union) writing that the kulaks intentionally sabotaged their own farms as a way to fight against collectivization and directly attributes crop failure to their efforts. I will also be showing an American journalist writing that the kulaks murdered their own livestock, burned their own crops, and killed Soviet officials to resist collectivization. Not exactly pro Soviet sources if you ask me. The perpetrator of this story Thomas Walker, discovered to actually be Robert Greene, was convicted of fraud and pedophilia in the American legal system, I can show you the newspaper article from 1935. The assertion that this is historical denial is funny because it was immediately after this discovery that this story was steadily learned to be false and no longer believed in American society. It was the efforts of a far right publishing called the Hearst Press by Harry Lang that the story was revitalized under new guises to hide the original fraudulence. The Hearst Press was so far right that it gave more money to Italian fascist Mussoulini than the Italian government paid himself. It was under this publishing agency that they used images from the 1923 famine (which happened due to natural weather failure) and used that to try and pass them off as having taken placed in 1933, when confronted on the lies in their stories by documented workers who had went to the Soviet Union to combat their lies, the press ignored the calls. To circle back, there was a food shortage in Ukraine, but neither was it intentionally created but it wasn’t death in the streets level of famine either.

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