{"id":8535,"date":"2023-02-19T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2026-03-15T16:14:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T16:14:39","slug":"velshis-precise-backgrounder-on-the-holodomor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/velshis-precise-backgrounder-on-the-holodomor\/","title":{"rendered":"Velshi&#8217;s precise backgrounder on the Holodomor"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Winterkill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Winterkill<\/a> tells the story of the very real <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Holodomor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Holodomor<\/a> \u2013 or  Ukrainian Genocide \u2013 Stalin\u2019s calculated attempt to exterminate the Ukrainians and their culture. Sound like today\u2019s war in Ukraine? The parallels are shocking. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VelshiBannedBookClub?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VelshiBannedBookClub<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VPESU73Gsr\">pic.twitter.com\/VPESU73Gsr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; &quot;Velshi&quot; on MS NOW (@VelshiMSNOW) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VelshiMSNOW\/status\/1627016747416170496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 18, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne-1200x900.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/velshijoanne.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[682,233,683,609],"class_list":["post-8535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","tag-ali-velshi","tag-ukrainian-famine-genocide","tag-velshibannedbookclub","tag-winterkill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10652,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8535\/revisions\/10652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calla.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}