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Ho·lo·do·mor

Holodomor

 
pronunciation:
ho lo do mor
part of speech: noun
definition: a human-engineered famine brought about in Ukraine during the years 1932 and 1933 when Ukraine was under Soviet rule, and, specifically, during the time that Joseph Stalin was in power. Millions of people died of starvation as a result of this famine (often preceded by "the").