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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Romanov)
to southern Belarus, the Volga Area, the Central Black Soil Region, the Cossack regions of the Don and Cuban river basins and the North Caucasus where it had begun in 1931. Northern Kazakhstan, South Urals and West Siberia were also affected. West Ukraine, then part of Poland, also experienced famine.Such amnesia on the part of Ukrainian analysts hardly amounts to minor discrepancies. It would be more logical to suspect them of deliberate and selective forgetfulness.
The Soviet Government did take tough action to crush peasant revolts. Famous Red Army commander Mikhail Tukhachevsky (1893-1937) who later became Marshal of the Soviet Union used poison gas to suppress the Tambov rebellion of 1919-1921. Although similar punitive tactics were used in Russia and Ukraine, the Red Army did not fire poison-gas shells against Ukrainian peasantry.
The Bolsheviks used famine as an instrument to persuade peasants to join collective farms and to completely weaken
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