In 1943, as the Red Army pushed the Wehrmacht back across Ukraine, a different catastrophe unfolded in the Kuban and eastern Ukrainian regions: a famine deliberately engineered by Stalin's regime. This episode explores how the Soviet government, after liberating territory from Nazi occupation, imposed grain requisitions so brutal that they caused mass starvation. Lucas and Luna discuss the little-known 'second occupation'—the return of Soviet power as a tool of political control. They examine the role of Georgy Malenkov, the secret instructions from Gosplan, the suppression of information by the NKVD, and the echoes of the earlier Holodomor. Drawing on the work of historian Olena Hnatiuk and declassified archives, they reveal how the Kremlin prioritized grain exports and army supplies over the survival of its own citizens. The episode also touches on regional resistance, the silence of Western allies, and how this famine was erased from official memory. A stark look at how Stalin used hunger as a weapon even during a war for national survival.
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