Ukrainian Genocide - 75 Years Ago
"Holodomor", was it just a famine or was it Joseph Stalin's way to purge Ukraine? In 1932 the Kremlin confiscated all the grain and food they could find in Ukrainian villages thereby condemning them to certain death from starvation. It has been estimated that up to 10 million Ukraines died in one year.
Here are some links to the story.
Was It Genocide
Ukraine Remembered
Ukrainian Genocide
In December of 2005, Russian President Putin threatened to cut off gas supplies to the Ukraine during a price dispute, or was it because the country had elected a pro western government? Germany is the largest consumer of Russian energy in Europe. Is Germany leaving itself open to the same threats in future.
In January 2007 Russia again threatened to cut off oil supplies to Poland, Germany and Ukraine. Our collective memories about the power of Russia needs to be jogged from time to time. This is a man who brooks no opposition to his steel fisted rule. Anyone who tries to oppose gets thrown in jail or worse, assassinated.
Just remember Joseph Stalin. The world should acknowledge that indeed, it was genocide.
posted by Rositta @ Sunday, November 25, 2007
1 Comments:
Ukranians now present that as genocide, but they forget that peasants and farmers of all nations have been killed at the same time. Russians as well, in south and north. If they had no grains in north, their fish was taken, and they died of hunger. And Ukrainians, those, who worked in NKVD, were very active in killing other Ukranians, Russians, Germans, Kazakhs throughout the USSR. By the way, Kazakhstan lost higher percent of its population than Ukraine during these years.
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