basic historical realities like the deliberate engineering of the holodomor

You should be embarassed. The consensus even among neoliberal historians (and not neoliberal pop-historians like Applebaum) is that it was not “engineered” and the Soviets did not desire to starve the soviet peasantry in the area because that’s a hysterical double-holocaust myth.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2020/11/21/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/