Imagine an approaching bountiful harvest, fields teeming with crops, branches hanging low with fruit... winter comes, but the harvest never comes... no one is left alive bring in the harvest; all the farmers have starved to death.

In the Ukraine no imagination is necessary and November 22nd is kept in remembrance of the dark tragedies of 1932-1933.  It's called the Holodomor or, roughly translated, "murder by hunger".

This was one of those "excesses" in Soviet policy that your liberal public school teachers glossed over while praising the "concept of communism" if it could only be practiced as envisioned by Marx.  But, only the Godless perversions of socialist thought could take the "breadbasket of Europe" and starve to death 7-14 million of its inhabitants.

That's just what the communists did, confiscated all food from the farmers to feed their powerbase in the cities.  Anyone who withheld food to feed their own family was summarily executed.  Then, with the excess of their ill gotten gain, the murdering dictators exported grain to gain hard foreign currency and to prove to the world that no famine existed in the great communist experiment... while the enslaved multitudes of Ukraine starved to death.

Some believe these policies were intentional acts of genocide to suppress Ukrainian nationalism.  And, if history shows us anything, it is that collectivists will stop at nothing, including genocide, to retain their power.

With the darkest days of communism hidden or forgotten in the west, a new wave of socialism is sweeping over us -- aided, not unwittingly, by leftist politicians, liberal advocacy groups, extremist environmentalists, abortionists, homosexuals, and hitherto "conservatives" who have signed on to the newest round of nationalizing our economy.

Holodomor is the natural result of collectivism.  Homeschooling is the inverse of collectivism and something to truly be thankful for this Thanksgiving Day.