Hitler's Got NOTHING on Stalin.

Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Maksym Kravets remembers watching hunger kill his father, then his mother.

Kravets, who was 14 when famine struck Ukraine in 1932, says he survived by eating a dog. About a third of the 1,000 people in his village, Lozova, perished as Soviet leader Josef Stalin cut off food supplies to force peasants onto collective farms.

``A special group of people was in the village taking away all the food we had,'' says Kravets, now 89, sitting in his kitchen in Kamyanets-Podilsky, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from where he almost starved to death. ``There were cases when people ate their dead children and parents.''

The yearlong famine, which killed at least 7 million people, is now the focus of books, exhibitions and documentaries marking the 75th anniversary. Ukraine's government is asking the United Nations to recognize the disaster as an act of genocide, worsening already frosty relations with Russia, which says the famine resulted from drought. More here.