zik.com.ua | 23Jul2008 | zik
SBU publicizes
list of Soviet high-ranking officials who engineered Holodomor and
repression in Ukraine
http://www.ssu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=80407&cat_id=80404
The Security Service of Ukraine has released on its website the first
list of high-ranking Soviet state and party officials and NKVD henchmen
who perpetrated and executed the man-made famine and repression in
1932-1933 in Ukraine. The list also includes documents signed by
Holodomor perpetrators that served as organizational and legal base for
repression, SBU July 23 press service report says.
The documents taken from SBU
archives convincingly prove that the Famine of 1932-1933 was engineered
by the criminal totalitarian Communist regime. Now these hitherto
classified documents have been made available to the Ukrainian public.
Visitors to the SBU site can now not only acquaint themselves with the
list of Soviet officials but also read the documents signed by them,
protocols of Politburo sessions, secret instructions to party members,
the text of the infamous law imposing cruel punishment for the theft of
grain by famine-stricken peasants and death statistics by
law-enforcement bodies.
The publication is the start of a new project by the SBU to present to
the public classified documents from Soviet archives. The SBU urges the
Ukrainian Institute of National Memory, the State Committee on
Archives, experts in regional state archives, Holodomor researchers to
join the project with the purpose of evaluating the role of organizers
and executors of the Famine and repression to bring them to account.
Comment by ZIK
SBU says it has made public all available archive
materials about the Famine in 1932-1933. For the first time, SBU opened
its archives in 2006, notably, the Soviet documents on Holodomor. These
documents have been included in “Declassified Memory. 1932-1933
Holodomor in Ukraine as represented by NKVD documents,”
Kyiv, 2007. Its electronic version is available on the SBU site. Link: http://ssu.gov.ua/sbu/control/uk/publish/article?art_id=80420&cat_id=39574