Again - speculation from outside, inconclusive.
The Ukrainian Holocaust was a theory mooted from The Cold War period, and, like the Irish Holocaust theory, has never been proved one way or the other.
Similar descriptions came from Ireland in their hundreds and were, and still are being denied as being deliberate.
History and evidence will sort out truth from propaganda.
Stalin, as meglomanic as he was, had nothing to gain by deliberately wiping out so many people.
Studies of the claim have been made, nearer the time of the events, which have debunked the claims - either accounts may be true, but without taking them in context, none are reliable.
Jim Carroll