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[–] Tomorrow_Farewell@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The fact that they targeted more than one ethnic group

If you were honest, you wouldn't be claiming that any group was "targeted", considering that there was no intent to cause a famine.

Explain it like my own family didn’t lose people in holodomor and many other acts of cruelty

Firstly, your relatives dying to an event does not magically confer you with knowledge about that event. Also, if that was an actual argument, you are welcome to explain similar things to people who have lost family due to the Lebensraum and the Holocaust, to invasions of Iraq, Afghanistan, etc., to the genocide of Palestine, to the ongoing famines caused by your empire, as well as to things like kidnapping children by the governments of Canada, Australia, the US, etc., and so on.
Secondly, if you have actual evidence for the famine being "an act of cruelty", i.e. being intentional, then you can present that evidence to the historians that study the famine for a living, as they have a very different view of the event.
Thirdly, claiming that you are "honest" but invoking the word "holodomor" and trying to claim that the famine of 1932 was a genocide is a bit amusing.