In 1932–1933, a man-made famine, known as the Holodomor, killed 3.3–5 million people in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (as part of the Soviet Union),; : "One demographic retrojection suggests a figure of 2.5 million famine deaths for Soviet Ukraine.

the claim that the Holodomor, a 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine,.

The causes of the Holodomor, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine during 1932 and 1933 that resulted in the death of around 3–5 million people, are the subject of scholarly and political debate, particularly surrounding the Holodomor genocide question.

The Holodomor (derived from ) was a 1932–33 man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine and adjacent Ukrainian-inhabited territories that killed millions of Ukrainians.