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ACTION UKRAINE REPORT - AUR - Number 914
Mr. Morgan Williams, Publisher and Editor, SigmaBleyzer
WASHINGTON, D.C., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2008
 
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18USA TRYING TO SET UKRAINE, RUSSIA AGAINST EACH OTHER WITH
THE GREAT FAMINE ISSUE SAYS RUSSIA'S UN REPRESENTATIVE
Itar-Tass, Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 28, 2008
 
19THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR USING THE WRONG APPROACH ON THE UKRAINIAN
GENOCIDE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RECOGNISES UKRAINIAN FAMINE OF 1930's
From: Roman Serbyn [email protected]; To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:46 AM

20 EU PARLIAMENT SAYS UKRAINIAN 1930S FAMINE WAS SOVIET "CRIME" 
Agence France Presse (AFP) Strasbourg, France, Thursday, October 23, 2008
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18.  USA TRYING TO SET UKRAINE, RUSSIA AGAINST EACH OTHER WITH
THE GREAT FAMINE ISSUE SAYS RUSSIA'S UN REPRESENTATIVE
 
Itar-Tass, Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 28, 2008

UNITED NATIONS - The United States is trying to set people of Ukraine and Russia against each other with the Great Famine issue, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Tuesday.

He said the United States was thus "resolving the hard task of pushing Ukraine into NATO while 80% of Ukrainian citizens objected to the Ukrainian
drawing into the North Atlantic alliance."

The U.S. and British delegations were rude and kept interrupting the chair of the UN General Assembly's General Committee, which was considering the Assembly agenda, Churkin said. The General Committee discussed the possible attachment of the Ukrainian draft resolution on the Great Famine to the agenda.

"The Great Famine and Ukrainian genocide claims create a certain background for another mainstream ideological action of the Ukrainian administration, i.e. glorification of Ukrainian accomplices of the Nazi," he said. "The most illustrative example of this glorification is the Hero of Ukraine title posthumously awarded by the Ukrainian president to one of the most notorious leaders of Ukrainian Nazis, Shukevich, in 2007."

"The Babiy Yar tragedy is the most vivid symbol of Holocaust," Churkin said. "Plenty of those who killed Jews in Babiy Yar were Ukrainian accomplices of the Nazi."

All that "is totally discordant with the United Nations Organization, which was established amid the victory of the anti-Hitler coalition, and principles of this organization," he said.
 
"Russia has been fighting against the phenomenon for more than three years. Each year it offers a resolution that condemns the appearance of new forms of racism and glorification of nazism, and each year the resolution gains support of the UN General Assembly. We hope that the resolution will enjoy broader support this year than in 2007 when it was approved by 130 states."

"European nations regularly abstain in the vote on the draft Russian resolution that condemns glorification of the Nazi. Maybe, the United States, which has taken up history and has become hyperactive in the Great Famine issue, will finally support the resolution. So far, only two states ­ the U.S. and the Marshall Islands ­voted against our resolution last year for reasons I would call inexplicable," Churkin said.
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19. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR USING THE WRONG APPROACH ON THE UKRAINIAN
GENOCIDE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RECOGNISES UKRAINIAN FAMINE OF 1930's
 
From: Roman Serbyn [email protected]; To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:46 AM

UNIAN, Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, October 23, 2008

The European Parliament has recognised the Ukrainian famine of 1930s as crime against humanity, according to the EP official web-site.

In a resolution on the commemoration of the Holodomor, the artificial famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, MEPs describe it as "an appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity".

According to the resolution, the Holodomor famine of 1932-1933, which caused the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, "was cynically and cruelly planned by Stalin`s regime in order to force through the Soviet Union`s policy of collectivisation of agriculture against the will of the rural population in Ukraine".

[WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! LEMKIN HAD THE RIGHT REASON: “... The Soviet plan was aimed at the farmers, the large mass of independent peasants who are the repository of the tradition, folklore and music, the national language and literature, the national spirit of Ukraine”.

& the Communist activist Prokopenko was exact when he admitted: “Starvation in Ukraine was brought about in order to reduce the number of Ukrainians, resettle in their place people from another par of the USSR, and in this way kill all thought of independence.” Roman Serbyn]

MEPs believe that "recalling crimes against humanity in European history should help to prevent similar crimes in the future" and they stress that "European integration has been based on a readiness to come to terms with the 20th century`s tragic history and that this reconciliation with a difficult history does not denote any sense of collective guilt, but forms a stable basis for the construction of a common European future founded on common values".

 The resolution therefore makes a "declaration to the people of Ukraine and in particular to the remaining survivors of the Holodomor and the families and relatives of the victims".

 It "recognises the Holodomor (the artificial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine) as an appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity".

 The text then "strongly condemns these acts, directed against the Ukrainian peasantry, and marked by mass annihilation and violations of human rights and freedoms".

 It also "expresses its sympathy with the Ukrainian people, which suffered this tragedy, and pays its respects to those who died as a consequence of the artificial famine of 1932-1933".

 Lastly, the resolution "calls on the countries which emerged following the break-up of the Soviet Union to open up their archives on the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 to comprehensive scrutiny so that all the causes and consequences can be revealed and fully investigated".
 
LINK: http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-280220.html 
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20.  EU PARLIAMENT SAYS UKRAINIAN 1930S FAMINE WAS SOVIET "CRIME" 
 
Agence France Presse (AFP) Strasbourg, France, Thursday, October 23, 2008

STRASBOURG - The "artificial" famine that killed millions in Soviet-era Ukraine in 1932-33 was "cynically and cruelly planned" by Moscow, a European Parliament resolution said Thursday.

The European Union's parliament stopped short of labeling the regional outcome of the communist policy of collectivization of agriculture "genocide," the term used by a 2006 Ukrainian parliament law.

However, its resolution said the deaths of between 4 and 10 million people, according to census and statistical estimates, were "an appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity."

The stance is likely to trigger deep irritation in Moscow, which has argued that drought was a pivotal factor. The text "strongly condemns these acts, directed against the Ukrainian peasantry, and marked by mass violations of human rights and freedoms."

Lawmakers also called on former Soviet states to open up their archives so that "all the causes and consequences" can be studied. Other areas and their ethnic groupings, including Kazakhstan, were also badly affected by the famine.

The Holodomor - understood as "murder by hunger" in Ukrainian - has been recognized as genocide by a small number of governments around the world, with Kiev campaigning for years to have the U.N. apply the strict legal definition.

Pro-Russian Ukrainians say it resulted from ideological error, with historians divided as to all the circumstances behind it and the 2006 law in Kiev passed by only a slim majority.

The program of forced collectivization saw the produce of Ukrainian farmers confiscated with the Soviet authorities also blocking food supplies into Ukraine in what some historians have argued was an attempt to crush a drive for independence. Ukraine gained its independence with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
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