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Investors in a documentary about a Stalin-era genocide in Ukraine are suing the film's producers for failing to release the picture. The plaintiffs allege the failure caused emotional distress for the Ukrainian community and constituted a fraud on all those who put up money with the expectation that an atrocity that exterminated approximately 25% of the Ukrainian population in the early 1930s would finally be recognized by the world. The film is entitled Holodomar: Ukraine's Genocide, 1932-1933, which details how Joseph Stalin broke a Ukrainian national revival in 1932 by requiring the country's farmers to turn over grain to the Soviet Union and exacted brute punishments whenever quotas weren't met. Read the story here.