These poems (see links below) were written during or after the Ukrainian Famine of 1932/33 called, "The Holodomor." For additional background on this famine, see Applebaum, A., 2017, Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine. Doubleday, 461 pp.
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress's website also contains information about the Holodomor ( https://ucc.ca/). Thanks to Nicole Yucaba of Bridgewater College, Bridgewater, VA, USA for highlighting the importance of the Holodomor and the poetry that was written about it.