Friday, July 03, 2009

 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.

(Video by Mike Parker)

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Steve Komarnyckyj is the editor of this site. if you have any queries please contact him at: steve(at)writerandtranslator.co.uk

 

Announcements

Holodomor Exhibition and Dancing with Stalin Lecture at Clare College Cambridge University 6 February 2009

I am very grateful to Cambridge University Ukrainian Society for inviting me to give a talk on the Holodomor at Clare College on 6 February 2009- a review of the event and the  text of my speech will be available on the site shortly

 

 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."

In Ukrainian:

'"Голод на Україні був викликаний для того, щоб зменшити кількість українців, переселити на їхнє місце людей з іншої частини СРСР і цим убити будь-яку думку про самостійність." Комуніст Прокопенко, уповноважений Сахновщинського районного виконавчого комітету (Харківської області) проговорився про голод перед групою колгоспників і 12 травня 1934 р.'
- 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