Shortly before his death, Solzhenitsyn opined in an interview published 2 April 2008 in Izvestia that, while the famine in Ukraine was both artificial and caused by the state, it was no different from the Russian famine of 1921–1922.
Before his death, Solzhenitsyn asserted in an interview published on April 2, 2008, in Izvestia that the Ukrainian famine, though artificial and caused by the state, was identical to the Russian famine of 1921–1922.