The reason why is because I felt that even though I thought that Stalin was a tyrant (I don’t believe this anymore, obv), he was genuinely devoted to Marxism and its principles, so the idea of him deciding to wipe out the Ukrainians out of bigotry or whatever just kinda didn’t make sense to me.
Here is info about Holodomor for those who are yet to learn about it.
https://www.villagevoice.com/in-search-of-a-soviet-holocaust/
A lib-friendly article on the topic from 1988. Shows how the myth stemmed from Nazi propaganda and their modern-day descendants, and is old enough to show that this stuff is a recent creation, not some obvious historical fact.
So this shit is both politically and culturally a myth! The very traditional definition of it.