Why did so many people die during the Holodomor?

the holodomor's death toll And, unlike other famines in history caused by blight and drought, this was caused when dictator wanted both to replace ukraine's small farms with state-run collectives and punish independence- minded ukrainians who posed a threat to his to tatalitaries

lincoln declared that slavery should not be allowed to spread into the new states, and of course this angered the south at the time.