Question

How are the Armenian, Ukrainian, and Chinese genocides similar and different from the Holocaust?

Answer 1

@Notamathgenius

Answer 2

@nubeer

Answer 3

@modphysnoob

Answer 4

well, for one, how well known they are

Answer 5

they are just wait a sec

Answer 6

American

During World War I, the Ottomans (primarily Muslims) feared that Armenians supported the Russians, an enemy of the Ottoman Empire. Why the concern? Most Armenians were Christian, so the Ottomans thought they held an allegiance with Russian Christians. Many Armenians pledged their loyalty to the Ottoman Empire, but this did not convince the Ottomans. As a result, the Ottomans decided to deport the western Armenians to the deserts of Syria. Ottoman troops forced hundreds of thousands of Armenians from their homes. Many died from starvation or lack of water during their march to Syria. Others were executed. The estimated number of deaths is between 600,000 and 1.5 million. Most surviving Armenians then headed north to Russian Armenia and founded the Republic of Armenia in 1918.

Ukrainian

During the late 1920s, the Soviet Union began a policy called "collectivization." This plan involved taking over privately owned farms and combining them into huge, state-run farms. The farmers in the Ukraine proved to be resistant to this policy. They rebelled by slaughtering cattle and destroying machinery. The leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, responded by intensifying collectivization. Soon the government increased the already high crop quota. Also, the government took away more of the Ukrainian's food, leaving them with very little to survive. These drastic measures brought on the Holodomor
, or Great Famine, of 1932 - 1933.
During this period, about five million Ukrainians and two to three million people from other areas died, mostly from an artificially-created famine. Even though the Soviet government exported huge amounts of grain to the West, it refused to provide relief to the Ukrainians. For many years, Soviet leaders denied the existence of the famine. Because of the government denial, this Soviet-caused genocide received much less attention than the Holocaust. Finally, in the late 1980s, Soviet officials admitted to wrongdoing after much research had been discovered regarding the horrors of Stalin's rule.

chines

In 1958, the Communist government in China led by Mao Zedong began an economic reform program called the Great Leap Forward. The Chinese government wanted China to catch up with both the agriculture and industry of Western nations. To achieve this, China decided to use its huge labor force. The government attempted to increase crop production by combining farms into communes of about 5,000 households each. Officials then ordered the communes to build "backyard furnaces" to produce steel in addition to their crops. However, the steel furnaces produced inferior quality steel and the quantity fell short of the quotas. In addition, China had poor harvests caused by natural disasters three years in a row, which resulted in severe food shortages. The Chinese government failed to listen to the commune leaders, which resulted in unreasonable expectations and chaos. All of these factors combined to produce a devastating famine that killed about 30 million people from 1959 to 1962. The Chinese government recognized the failure, and discontinued the Great Leap Forward experiment. Land returned to privatization, and the people were then allowed to sell any spare food that they grew.

Answer 7

For anyone looking for this question in the future, this is my opinion. The Armenian, Ukrainian, and Chinese genocides occurred because of economic and production difficulties. The Holocaust was simply a racist genocide based on social discrimination.