Louise Knott Ahern: Famine survivor says this life, it is a blessing

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Published Nov. 30, 2014 at 9:34 am

People light candles during a ceremony to commemorate victims of the 1932-33 Great Famine in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2012.

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Between 1932 and 1933, an estimated 4 million Ukrainians died from starvation in what is now widely accepted as a premeditated famine perpetrated by the Soviet Union.