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WATCH: “Bitter Harvest” sheds light on Stalin’s forced starvation of Ukrainians that killed millions

The Holodomor, a genocide by forced starvation enacted on the Ukraine by Joseph Stalin during the 1930s, took millions of lives, but is not particularly well-known in history, in no small part because of the effectiveness of Soviet propaganda. The new film “Bitter Harvest”, starring Max Irons and Samantha Barks, seeks to shed more light on this dark period through the fictional story of the young lovers Yuri and Natalka, as they fight for both their country and their love. Irons and the film’s producer, Ian Ihnatowycz, stopped by Salon’s studios to speak about the movie with Amanda Marcotte. “We filmed it in Ukraine, in order to provide the authenticity of where it happened,” Ihnatowycz said.

 

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