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Itar-Tass, Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 8:46 AM
Agence
France Presse (AFP) Strasbourg, France, Thursday, October 23, 2008
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. 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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. THIS IS WHAT YOU GET FOR
USING THE WRONG APPROACH ON THE UKRAINIAN
GENOCIDE
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT RECOGNISES UKRAINIAN FAMINE OF 1930's
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".
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. 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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