Famine cause, Soviet involvement, Soviet purpose chart
Please carefully review all of the alternatives presented by the chart and read the footnotes before selecting positions. The gradations of meaning can be somewhat subtle.
Soviet authorities had no purpose in allowing or causing harm |
Soviet authorities purpose in allowing or causing harm | |||
Cause of famine in Ukraine Involvement of Soviet authorities in Ukraine |
Harm resulted from simple negligence, awareness but indifference, or inability to relieve | To achieve goals not specifically related to or directed at Ukraine | To achieve goals specifically related to or directed at Ukraine but not specifically related to or directed at Ukrainian ethnicity or nationalism[1] | To achieve goals specifically related to or directed at Ukrainian ethnicity and / or nationalism |
Entirely natural Soviet authorities did not take advantage of it or fail to take action to relieve it |
1A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Entirely natural Soviet authorities simply failed to take action to relieve it |
1B | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Entirely natural Soviet authorities failed to take action to relieve it in order to take advantage of the suffering |
N/A | 1C | 1D | 1E |
Partly natural / partly human-caused, but unintended to cause harm[2] Soviet authorities did not take advantage of it or fail to take action to relieve it |
2A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Partly natural / partly human-caused, but unintended to cause harm[2] Soviet authorities simply failed to take action to relieve it |
2B | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Partly natural / partly human-caused, but unintended to cause harm[2] Soviet authorities failed to take action to relieve it in order to take advantage of the suffering |
N/A | 2C | 2D | 2E |
Partly natural / partly human-caused, Soviet authorities intended harm |
N/A | 3A | 3B | 3C |
Entirely human-caused, but unintended to cause harm[2] Soviet authorities did not take advantage of it or fail to take action to relieve it |
4A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Entirely human-caused, but unintended to cause harm[2] Soviet authorities simply failed to take action to relieve it |
4B | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Entirely human-caused, but unintended to cause harm[2] Soviet authorities failed to take action to relieve it in order to take advantage of the suffering |
N/A | 4C | 4D | 4E |
Entirely human-caused Soviet authorities intended harm |
N/A | 5A | 5B | 5C |
- ^ For example (only): To punish resistance to farm collectivization which was centered in Ukraine but which the Soviet authorities did not perceive to be related to Ukraine nationalism.
- ^ a b c d e f The term "unintended to cause harm" means either (a) that no harm was intended or foreseen by the human actions which resulted in the famine or (b) that there was was awareness that famine or some other harm would or could result but causing the famine or harm was not itself the purpose of taking the action which resulted in the famine.