A documentary featuring testimonies from people who remember the 1933 famine in Ukraine.

The Holodomor was a mass-scale, man-made famine organised in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932–1933 by the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the government of the USSR. Ukraine was the hardest hit, with millions of people dying of starvation. This famine has been recognised as genocide against the Ukrainian people. According to demographic estimates, the total number of victims of the Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR is 3–7 million people. According to estimates by the M. Ptukha Institute of Demography and Social Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine’s demographic losses as a result of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 amount to approximately 4.5 million people, including 3.9 million due to excess mortality and a further 600,000 due to a birth deficit.

The Soviet government under Andropov and Khrushchev began to use such an instrument of repression as “punitive psychiatry”. At that time, about 2 million political prisoners, including Ukrainian scientists, artists, writers, political and public figures, were sent to special psychiatric hospitals. One of these hospitals was located in Dnipro.

A series of 8 documentaries covering the topic of 'Punitive Psychiatry' in the USSR — the use of psychiatry as a repressive tool against dissidents.