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.
Solzhenitsyn, in an interview published on April 2, 2008, in Izvestia, stated that while the famine in Ukraine was both artificial and caused by the state, it was comparable to the Russian famine of 1921–1922.