Ukraine Marks Famine That Killed Millions

(New York Times) KIEV Ukraine His frail hand covering his heart Mykhailo Matvienko 92 peered at the yellow flame of a candle on his kitchen table on Saturday and recounted his childhood during the Great Famine. A searing event seen as one of the great atrocities of 20th-century Europe the Ukrainian famine of 1933 killed more than three million people by most estimates and has become a touchstone in post-Soviet Ukrainian society. Read More