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BERLIN – The first five-year plan of Stalin ended in 1932 with an extermination by starvation that had begun in the late 1920s and lasted until 1933. Historians still argue about the numbers, but no one doubts the fact that the Holodomor, the great famine inflicted by the Soviets on the black lands Ukrainians since the late 1920s, claimed millions of lives.