No it's that the party promoted anti intellectual polices not just a lack of knowledge.

The one party state, which was a byproduct of the revolution, led numerous terrible policies due to absolute authority of the party. I.e eliminate sparrows campaign, the four pest campaign in general, and overall inefficiency in a planned economy.

Raphael lemkin the guy who initiated the genocide convention said

"is a classic example of the Soviet genocide, the longest and most extensive experiment in Russification, namely the extermination of the Ukrainian nation". Lemkin stated that it consisted of four steps:

Extermination of the Ukrainian national elite, "the brain of the nation", which took place in 1920, 1926 and 1930–1933

Liquidation of the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, "the soul of the nation", which occurred between 1926 and 1932 and during which 10,000 of its priests were killed. Lemkin highlighted that before liquidation, the Church was offered the opportunity to join the Russian Patriarchate, which Lemkin argues "indicates that the only goal of this action was Russification."

Extermination of a significant part of the Ukrainian peasantry as "custodians of traditions, folklore and music, national language and literature, and the national spirit" (the Holodomor itself)

Populating the territory with other nationalities with intent of mixing Ukrainians with them, which would eventually lead to the dissolution of the Ukrainian nation.

Oh like the genocidal holodomor

Almost like English is the dominant language and I linked the English wikipedia.

That's their citation standards they also have a page that says Wikipedia should not cite itself. One time I vandalized a random article by changing how old a river was. I was banned from editing for 3 years

And still the one party state need to rapidly industrialize was a driving cause. We can't forget about the anti-intellectual polices can we?

How stupid do they think we are

How does it even do that

Now this is humor!