The “Black Board” regime

Into the genocide in Ukraine were involved all the elements of the party-Soviet system, headed by the Communist Party. In 30’s the Communist Party of Ukraine, either by the national composition of its leadership, neither by the direction of its activities was not Ukrainian. And the party acted totally under the control of the All-Union Party. That provided political retention of Ukraine in the Kremlin's military orbit. The Ukrainian Communist Party duplicated all the laws of the Central Committee of the CC ACP (b) and the CPC of the USSR.

The hunger catastrophe was deepened by usage of the "black boards" regime, which was officially recognized as a repressive. The repressive action included the food blockade of separate collective farms, villages, and even districts, which turned them into the social reservation for large groups of people who were kept without food for 5-6 months, having previously taken away all the food possible. In 1932-1933, the "black board" regime was used in 180 regions of the Ukrainian SSR (25%).

The reason for including villages to the "black board" was not only "non-fulfillment of the plan", but also the political past of the village: the presence among residents of the UPR activists and the rebel movement, the negative attitude to collectivization and the Soviet regime as a whole.

The repressive regime was also used in the regions beyond the Ukrainian SSR, where Ukrainians prevailed. In early 1932, the "black boards" system was introduced in Kuban. Kuban was a part of the Russian Republic (North Caucasus region), but by the language, traditions and culture it was Ukrainian at that time. According to the population census 1926 there lived 1 million 412 thousand Ukrainians (75%).

 

The anti-Ukrainian direction of the Holodomor was also indicated by the law from December 14, 1932, in which the grain procuring company was associated with the suspension of the national development of only Ukrainian nation in the USSR and liquidation of the process on the territories of its ethnic settlement outside of the Ukrainian SSR. On December 15, Stalin and Molotov signed a law about the termination of Ukrainization on the Far East, in Kazakhstan, Siberia, Volga region, and the Central Black Earth region.