If you're looking for the actual horrors of what happened during the Holodomor, have a look at this: https://web.archive.org/web/20111212193000/http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/MEDIA/01292.pdf

During the two year famine, 2,500 people were convicted of eating their children. That's how bad Stalin made the famine. The whole situation was not created, but it's where the saying, "Never let a tragedy go to waste," originates.

There was a famine, mostly due to industrialization and farmers moving into cities to work factory jobs and many farms went unattended. Stalin saw the possibilities of what a food shortage would do, and he amplified it. He started confiscating food from farms and withholding it from the lower class, which starved them all off.

His hope was that he could then turn around and provide for them, which would make him a hero - except it was an actual famine and he had no food to hand over to the poor so around six million people starved to death.