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Step-by-step explanation:
It's not only historians who have declared this a genocide. It is places like the province of Canada where I live, who have declared this a genocide. It seems like it is about the only term that can be used.
It occurred in the early 1930s. Most famines can be blamed on Nature. This one was not or not entirely. Joseph Stalin was at the root of a political move that was meant to warn those who wanted to be free of his dictatorial rule that their attempt at independence would be very costly. The Holodomor was the result. Between 7 and 10 million people perished because Stalin wanted all the small farms to be abandoned and large collective state farms would replace them. The Ukraine refused, so Stalin starved them out.
When 7 to 10 million people die from Starvation caused by a political action, it cannot be called anything but a Holocaust or a genocide. Those governments that condemned Stalin's actions are to be commended. They are the places where you should live if you believe freedom is important.
I believe parts of the United States have also condemned Stalin for his action.