Thursday, May 17, 2012

 HOLODOMOR 1932-33

The Campaign

Welcome to the Holodomor.org.uk site, associated with the campaign for  UK government to recognise the Holdomor, or genocidal famine, of 1932-33 in Ukraine as genocide. The aims of the site are:

To enable people campaigning for recognition of the Holodomor to coordinate their work

To promote awareness of the Holodomor among the British public and politicians.

The Holodomor, or Hunger plague, was a famine engineered by the Soviet Union as part of a series of actions, including mass executions, designed to destroy the Ukrainian nation. Census data reveal a shortfall of 11,000, 000 in the Ukrainian population by 1937. Before and during 1937 large numbers of Ukrainians would be executed in the Great Terror which, although all the Soviet Union was affected, had a specifically Ukrainian dimension.

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Steve Komarnyckyj is the editor of this site. if you have any queries please contact him at: stevekom(at)live.com

 

Steve Komarnyckyj's translation of "Swans" by Draj-Khmara is currently Poem of the Month on the Modern Poetry in Translation Site. Please have a look at the poem and leave a comment if you wish

 

www.mptmagazine.com/page/poem-month/

 

A selection of his translations of Ukrainian authors who were part of the Executed Renaissance is published in the current issue of Modern Poetry in Translation

 

www.mptmagazine.com/product/series-3-no15--poetry-and-the-state-145/

 

Finally some of his translations of Tychyna are available in the current edition of Fjords Review

http://www.fjordsreview.com/

 

 

 

URGENT- Kyiv-Mohyla Academy is under threat of closure as part of the current regime's plans to concentrate power in the hands of a clique of pro Russian politicians. Please contact Steve Komarnyckyj for further information

Newsflash- The United States does not recognise the Holodomor as a genocide at the highest level despite the declaration by Congress. Newly released documents obtained by the editor show that the US only supported Ukraine's UN resolution regarding the Holodomor provided that any mention of genocide was removed.

Rice sent a letter of support to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister almost covertly with an instruction that no signed original was to be released

The documents are on the links below. Further material will be published shortly

www.holodomor.org.uk/LinkClick.aspx

www.holodomor.org.uk/LinkClick.aspx

This is a quote from a communist leader speaking in the Kharkiv region in 1934:

"Famine in Ukraine was brought on to decrease the number of Ukrainians, replace the dead with people from other parts of the USSR, and thereby to kill the slightest thought of any Ukrainian independence."

- V. Danilov et al., Sovetskaia derevnia glazami OGPU_NKVD. T. 3, kn. 2. Moscow 2004. P. 572

 

With thanks to Professor Roman Serbyn whose research provided this quote and Aleks Kalashnik who sent it to me and whose blog is here:

 

A recent and excellent article by Yehven Zakharov on the Holodomor can be found here