KIEV, Ukraine, April 29 (UPI) -- Ukrainian areas held by separatists now feature school curricula with a softened historical image of the Soviet Union's dealings with Ukraine.
At the heart of it is the 1932-3 Ukrainian famine, which killed at least 3 million people, by a conservative estimate. Historians, and sympathetic Ukrainians, have long contended the famine was caused by the export of grain to finance industrialization in the Soviet Union's Stalin era, with Ukraine receiving the brunt of the burden. The anecdotal evidence includes desperate acts of cannibalism among the population.