Ukraine Farmers Who Endured Hitler, Stalin Now Fear Markets
- Ukrainian government seeks to lift ban on farmland sales
- History of Soviet and Nazi atrocities darkens public opinion
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Tamara Tarasenko’s life began against the backdrop of the violent struggles for land in Ukraine, known as “the breadbasket of Europe.” Now she’s 80, and she’s afraid there’s another fight coming for its fertile black soil.
Born between the Josef Stalin-imposed famine that killed millions of people in the 1930s and the invasion of Nazis who murdered millions more to exploit the land for Germany, she spent most of her life on a kolgosp, a collective farm created from land seized by the communists.