Etymologically, the Ukrainian word Holodomor is composed of holod, hunger, and demoryty, which has no direct equivalent in French and can be rendered as ‘to let perish deliberately’. In this formulation, intentionality is decisive: to allow someone to perish is to murder.
Source: Holodomor: the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33 | Workers’ Liberty
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