Oh boy them fascists really do be mean I gotta say, yeesh they sure know how to make bad things happen. I really don’t appreciate what they say and do. At all.

So, I wouldn't really consider myself a Marxist, though I have read Marx and agree with most of his theory. I'm a libertarian socialist and I'm skeptical of state authority in general. I don't have a concrete position on this topic, and I'm very open to new information. From my research so far, the Holodomor seems to have been intentional. Here's why I think that:

1: During the famine, the USSR raised grain quotas and increased exports from Ukraine. If the famine wasn't intentional, why would you increase quotas and exports, specifically in Ukraine?

1. From the 1932 harvest, Soviets only got 3.4 million tons of grain compared to the 7.2 tons from the year prior. Immediately they cut back on rations to Ukrainian villages, leading to starvation in the following winter. Ukrainian villagers weren't allowed to leave, and if they did they were arrested and sent back to their villages, which was effectively a death sentence. Uncooperative villages were completely blacklisted from aid, and food imports were blocked.

I'm aware the famine affected other soviet regions (and other ethnic groups) as well, and that much of the soviet leadership were in fact Ukrainian. But based on these policies, it seems Ukraine was intentionally targeted, IMO, to suppress growing Ukrainian nationalism. I think most leftists can agree that the Bengal famine and the Irish potato famine were intentional for similar reasons, why does the USSR get special treatment? Or is there anything I'm missing? Feel free to correct me on any of these, I just want to know the perspective of more well read leftists on the USSR and the Holodomor.

(I'm aware the 1947 famine was caused by the Nazi's and not the government, and that post 1947, according to a CIA paper, soviet citizens ate the same calorie requirements as Americans and had healthier diets. This is specifically about the Holodomor.)

I am not a rabid anti soviet union, the communists were more evil than the nazis liberal. I just want to know more.

What should be the uncompromising points of unity amongst the "left" in the current times?