Professor Michael Ellman of the University of Amsterdam concludes that " 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 " . These include not only policies that exacerbated the starvation ( exporting 1.8 million tonnes of grain during the height of the famine , banning migration from famine-stricken areas and refusing to secure humanitarian aid from abroad ) , but also mass shootings and deportations of alleged " kulaks " , " counter-revolutionaries " and other " Anti-Soviet elements " around the same time
mass shootings and deportations
Dekulakization
Holodomor genocide question