The objective of the Stalinist dictatorship during the Great Famine was not to starve Ukrainians but to collectivize agriculture across the Soviet Union. The deaths of 2.5 to 3.5 million Ukrainians at the time was a terrible crime against humanity, but not an attempt to exterminate the Ukrainian people. During the Great Famine, the Kazakhs lost a greater share of their population than the Ukrainians did, but there weren't as many of them. If its objective was to improve Soviet agriculture it was a colossal failure. Agriculture was always the weakest link in the Soviet economy, to the day it disappeared.
The objective of the Stalinist dictatorship during the Great Famine was not to starve Ukrainians but to collectivize agriculture across the Soviet Union. The deaths of 2.5 to 3.5 million Ukrainians at the time was a terrible crime against humanity, but not an attempt to exterminate the Ukrainian people. During the Great Famine, the Kazakhs lost a greater share of their population than the Ukrainians did, but there weren't as many of them. If its objective was to improve Soviet agriculture it was a colossal failure. Agriculture was always the weakest link in the Soviet economy, to the day it disappeared.