The first book presentation by Nolan Peterson of "Why Soldiers Miss War" about the conflict in south-eastern Ukraine from 2014 to 2022. On February 24, 2022 Russia made a full scale invasion of Ukraine on several fronts.

Nolan Peterson is a US Air Force veteran turned journalist who has lived in and reported from Ukraine for several years. Many of his articles can be found in The Daily Signal. Nolan Peterson has written for a number of other news publications and is the author of several books. He is the senior editor of the "Coffee or Die" Magazine.
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Ukrainian Canadian Professional and Business Association
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League of Ukrainian Canadians
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BCU Foundation
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Friends of the Ukrainian Defense Forces Fund
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The conflict in Ukraine arose after the February 2014 Revolution of Dignity which ousted the corrupt former President Yanukovich, who stole tens of billions of dollars from the people of Ukraine. He was turning the clock back to the time of the Soviet Union while looting the country, which the people resisted. Since 2014 Ukraine went through a process of de-communization and removal of Lenin statues called the Leninopad.

After Yanukovich fled to Russia, it used covert means of its special ops forces to seize Crimea and orchestrate a rebellion in the Donetsk and Luhansk provinces of Ukraine's south east. Quickly organized Ukrainian volunteer battalions-militias and regular military forces helped prevent the seizure of more of its territory. In the occupied regions controlled by Russia there have been severe abuses of human rights and many vulnerable people have died of starvation.

The policy to deliberately starve the population is nothing new for the region. 100 years ago, southern Ukraine and Donbas were hit very hard in the 1921-23 famine-genocide, which was officially denied by the Soviets in the area. Instead of receiving international food relief, Moscow continued to confiscate food as Soviet "taxes" from the already starving region making the famine much worse in Ukraine than in the Volga Basin which did receive international food aid.

It should be remembered that those regions before the 1917 communist revolution were prosperous highly productive agricultural areas. Although there were many periodic droughts in the region, they never led to major famines like during the Soviet period. The official Soviet statistic of the 1921-23 famine was 5 million deaths, but it may be higher because in Ukraine the famine was officially denied.

The worst hit city during the 1921-23 famine was Kherson, which died out completely. The city was occupied again on March 3, 2022 by Russian forces. Zaporizhia province, the Cossack heartland in Ukraine was the worst hit province in the 1921-23 famine and was one of the areas hit a second time during the 1928-34 Holodomor famine-genocide. It currently is also in the 2022 conflict zone. From Ukraine to Kuban in southern Russia it is traditional ethnographic Ukrainian Cossack territory. The whole general area was hit very hard during the 1928-34 Holodomor famine-genocide. The Volga and southern Ukraine also had a lot of ethnic Germans.

On the centennial of the 1921-23 famine-genocide, due to the Russian invasion and occupation, it could be called another genocide due to the widespread destruction by its military forces.

The causes of the Soviet famines were excessive grain requistions, collectivization of agriculture which reduced productivity and eliminating skilled farmers as so-called "class enemies" across the whole country. The forced excessive grain and other food requisitions from the population are considered to be the main cause of the 3 largest Soviet famines in 1921-23 (5mn+), 1928-34 (10mn+), and 1946-47 (1.5mn). The later famines were all strictly denied by the illegitimate criminal Marxist occupation regime, since they didn't want international food aid interfering with them or international witnesses.

Famines and the weaponization of access to food in other Marxist countries around the world should be closely examined, which are major crimes against humanity.

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Dr. Phillip Karber US Military Expert
Russian Way of War @West Point2018
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Interview 4 March,2022
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Atlantic Council
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The Ukrainians(Volunteer battalion)
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93rd Mechanized Infantry-Battle for Ukraine
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Radio Free Europe
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BBC War in Ukraine
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