"But it's difficult not to label the villagers' treatment racist when one reflects that no group of white civilians taken out of harm's way would have been treated similarly."

The man-made famine inflicted on the Ukrainian people during 1932 to 1933 known as the Holodomor by the Soviet communists to force collectivisation killed an estimated 10 million white civilian men, women, and children. During the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899 to 1902, approximately 25,000 Boer women and children died of starvation and disease in white concentration camps set up by the British.