“Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?” —Joseph Stalin (Stalin, n.d.)

As the world got rapidly more crowded and interconnected, it began to become more difficult to pull off a feat like hiding the Holodomor. The global mood was becoming more resistant to arbitrary war. The League of Nations of 1920 was followed by the United Nations in 1945, both organizations formed by a consensus among many nations that it would be better to conduct global affairs through peaceful discussion rather than war. The Ukrainian SSR was one of the 51 founding signatories. At least there has been some semblance of peer pressure against great crimes of state. As the world opened up to view, the attention of the world was drawn to hidden genocides and invasions, and Ukraine became a textbook case in the political theory classes of the world’s universities.