The Soviet Union was already quite isolated from the outside world in the 1930s, and it was difficult to obtain reliable information from there.
UkrInform: Holodomor – unique photos from Austrian engineer
On Nov. 23, 2019, Ukrainians light candles and place flowers during a memorial ceremony near a monument to the victims of the Holodomor, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's mass starvation of at least four million Ukrainians from 1932-1933.