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1: R.W. Davies, British historian on the soviet union, communist from the 1930s-1950s until he left because of the soviet invasion of Hungary, he argued that the Holodomor wasn't a targeted genocide but was man-made and a result of soviet policies.

2: Steven Wheatcroft, Australian historian on the soviet union, co-authored books with Davies. Had the same stance as Davies, he wrote books detailing soviet industrialization and blamed it for famines but wasn't a communist.

3: Michael Ellman, British professor on soviet economics, was very much against Stalin but had a different view of genocide saying that if the Holodomor was a genocide, so would every other major event that led to the deaths of many such as the atomic bombings. To quote: "Team-Stalin's behaviour in 1930 – 34 clearly constitutes a crime against humanity (or a series of crimes against humanity) as that is defined in the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court article 7, subsection 1 (d) and (h)"

4: Mark Tauger, professor of history at West Virginia University,[stated that the 1932 harvest was 30–40% smaller than recorded in official statistics.] He stated that it is difficult to accept the famine "as the result of the 1932 grain procurements and as a conscious act of genocide" but that "the regime was still responsible for the deprivation and suffering of the Soviet population in the early 1930s"

5: Hiroaki Kuromiya states that although the famine was man-made and much of the deaths could have been avoided had it not been for Stalin's agricultural policies.

So the lesson here is that all of these people blame communist/stalin's policies which led to the Holodomor and other famines, not western pressure or revisionist history, all blame goes to communism with or without the genocide claim.

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