Harvest of Despair (The Communist Holocaust)

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This film documents the Ukrainian terror famine of 1932--33, which caused the deaths of 7,000,000 people. Using interviews with survivors and scholars to supplement rare photographic evidence, it established that the terror famine was deliberately created by the Soviet Government as part of Stalin's decades-long effort to destroy the Ukrainian peasantry, who resisted the forced collectivization of their lands.

It is called the forgotten holocaust a time when Stalin was dumping millions of tons of wheat on the Western markets while, in Ukraine, people were dying of starvation at the rate of 25,000 each day. Ten million perished in a famine caused, not by war or natural disaster, but by decree. Blinded by leftwing ideals, world statesmen, journalists, and celebrities all contributed to the regime's campaign of concealment — a process that continues today.

Since its original release, it has received many international awards (including an Academy Award nomination) and has been featured on William F. Buckley's Firing Line program on the PBS television network. A powerful film, Harvest of Despair provides rare insight into one of this century's least-known but most vicious genocides.