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Facts About the Ukraine Crisis | 15.03.2022Ukraine from a Demographic Point of View
With great shock, employees of the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) follow the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. With the attack, the Ukranian population is confronted with a catastrophic crisis situation, which leads to suffering, flight and death. This applies to Ukrainians as well as to the foreign population in Ukraine.
Over the last 100 years, Ukraine is one of the countries in Europe whose population had been particularly hit hard by war and other kind of misery. While the catastrophic conditions of the First World War and the ensuing civil war had just been overcome, the communist collectivization and the Soviet government's anti-Ukrainian stance in the mid-1930s led to a famine with more than 3.5 million deaths. This was largely concealed by the Soviet government at the time and had not been addressed until decades later. Population research made important contributions to this process.
Shortly after the famine followed the Second World War, which had devastating consequences for the large Jewish population in Ukraine. With the Holocaust, organized by the National Socialist government of the German Reich, more than one million people of Jewish faith were murdered from Ukraine alone. In addition, many Ukrainians lost their lives in the Nazi war of extermination, in which a Germanization of Ukraine was pursued within the framework of the General Plan East.
The BiB expresses its solidarity with the Ukrainian population affected by the war. This also includes Ukrainian researchers, with whom we closely cooperate in research projects.