Crimea almost escaped the terror-famine of 1932-1933. The peninsula was a safe place for Ukrainians to escape from hunger. For a while they could buy nearly 40 pounds of grain to take it out of Crimea for their relatives.

Crimea became an ample proof that Holodomor was a man-made artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932 – 1933. Hunger just slightly touched Crimea, though the peninsula according to its natural and economic features was similar to neighboring Kherson region, where the disaster was accompanied by epidemics of mental illness, suicides and cannibalism.

According to the Soviet directive, dated 31 December 1932, the security officers were ordered to prevent frauds and mass afflux of single purchases and merchants to the markets, despite the introduction of free trade in bread in the peninsula. 

On 8 August the directive telephone message from Moscow to Crimea ordered to report quarterly on measures, taken to prohibit trade in grain, bread and flour in the peninsula.

On 23 October 1933 the Crimean security officers were obliged “to maximize operational support for the export campaign” which was at risk of collapse due to irregularities, noted by the «Exportklib” office in the storage, processing and shipping of grain. While in the mainland Ukraine, the parents starved to eat their children and Soviet power exported grain abroad via Crimean ports in exchange for machines and currency.

Thus, at the beginning of 1930th there was no famine at its extreme stage in Crimea, and even on the contrary – exhausted Ukrainian peasants sought refuge in the peninsula from death.

But this fact, as well as the active measures of the communist regime on the severing of Crimean-Ukrainian economic ties, once again reflect the artificial nature of the Holodomor.