“Mr. Jones” Remembers When Stalin Weaponized Famine
Anthony Lane reviews Agnieszka Holland’s dramatization of Ukraine’s deadly Holodomor famine, “Mr. Jones,” and Olivier Assayas’s “Wasp Network,” starring Penélope Cruz and Gael García Bernal.
Current scholarship estimates that just under four million people died in Ukraine's 1932-33 famine—not from natural causes, but from Stalin's deliberate starvation policy.