Золото – державі! Торгсин у радянській Україні (1931–1936)
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In the book Gold - the state! Torgsyn in Soviet Ukraine (1931–1936) Mykola Horokh covers the history of the organization, which became a powerful tool for pumping values into the population in the name of forced military-industrial modernization of the USSR. Based on archival documents, oral testimonies, memoirs, research by Ukrainian and foreign scholars, the author recreates a dramatic picture of everyday Ukrainian society during the Holodomor. Although by nature Torgsin seemed to embody everything that the Bolsheviks struggled with - market relations, legal circulation of foreign currency and precious metals, speculation, accumulation of capital - in the pursuit of money for industrialization, the Stalinist government without hesitation set up these sales through Torgsyn's export network. in exchange for gold, silver, currency and other valuables. In 1933, Torgsin "mobilized" 8.5 tons of gold in the USSR. Forced to exchange family heirlooms for food for the sake of a seeming hope for life, individual families and society as a whole have lost an important part of the family memory and cultural heritage that created the national identity. According to Gorokh, the return from oblivion, the understanding of Torgsin's history complements the picture of Stalin's policy of creating hunger as a component of genocide in Ukraine, will contribute to the assertion in the modern world of understanding the value of human dignity and life.
