Zuzak
GRC Report; Wed., May 07, 2008
(1) Holodomor Flame:
Starting
with Toronto on 18Apr2008 and
ending in Edmonton on 03May2008, Stefan Horlatsch has successfully
escorted the
Holodomor Flame through the cities of Winnipeg, Yorkton, Regina,
Saskatoon,
Vegreville, Red Deer and Calgary. Media reports and a photo gallery may
be
viewed at
http://www.ucc.ca/holodomor/flame/index.htm
People
who have access to media reports or
photographs that are not yet included on this UCC web page are
requested to
send them to Irka Mycak at [email protected]
.
To
follow the progress of the Flame across
the United States consult the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America
at http://ucca.org/home/
.
The
Flame is scheduled to return to Canada
at Niagara Falls on 22May2008 and culminate in Ottawa on 26May2008
during the
state visit of President Viktor Yushchenko before returning to the
United
States. (President Yuschenko is also slated to visit Edmonton and
Winnipeg on
27May2008.)
(2) Holodomor Files:
Four articles have been archived this past month in the Holodomor files
at
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/mozuz/holodomor/holodomor.html
“Denying
the Holodomor”, To David Miliband,
07May2008; W. Zuzak
“UK
Government refuses to recognise the
Holodomor as a genocide”, 12Apr2008; S. Komarnyckyj
“The
genocide loophole”, Los Angeles Times,
08Apr2008; Jonah Goldberg
“The
Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 as an
Act of Genocide”, 2003 competition; Christina Maslo
(3)
Ukrainian defamation:
A
deliberate attempt to defame Ukrainians
has been exposed by Dr. Lubomyr Prytulak as “Oles Buzyna’s Hitler Doll
Hoax”
archived at
http://www.ukar.ca/shevchenko/buzyna/hitler.html
Halya
Coynash
of the Kharkiv
Human Rights Protection Group has
also responded to this defamation at
http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-249363.html
Respectfully
submitted
Will Zuzak, 2008-05-07
Denying the
Holodomor
Mr.
David Miliband
Foreign Secretary
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
King Charles Street
London SW1 2AH
England
[email protected]
Dear
Mr. Miliband:
I
have been informed that the British
government has declined to recognize the Holodomor -- the Ukrainian
famine-genocide of 1932/33 -- as a genocide perpetrated by Josef Stalin
and his
Bolshevik henchmen against the Ukrainian people.
At
his website http://www.holodomor.org.uk/
Steve Komarnyckyj [email protected]
has reproduced two articles (dated 30Nov2006 and 01Dec2006) written by
"Research Analysts, Foreign & Commonwealth Office" advising the
British government not to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide. I am
appalled
by the shallowness of their knowledge and their argumentation, which
repeatedly
emphasizes that other areas of the Soviet Union were also affected by
the
famine. They refuse to recognize that the spectre of "losing Ukraine"
was a major reason for Stalin to deliberately impose the famine on
Ukraine.
Historical documents repeatedly quote Stalin referring to Petliurists
and
bourgeois nationalists as wreckers of his
industrialization/collectivization
plans.
My
critique of their analysis is archived
on the Holodomor page of my website at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/holodomor.html
or specifically at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/komarnyckyj20080412ePoshtaWZ.html
such that I will not repeat my comments here.
However,
I will repeat my contention that
all European governments, who had diplomatic missions located within
the Soviet
Union, were aware of the genocidal nature of the famine raging
throughout
Ukraine in 1932/33. For example, in his report from Kharkiv, dated 31
May 1933,
the Italian consul general prognosticated on the devastation of the
country:
"The current disaster will bring about a preponderantly Russian
colonization of Ukraine. In a future time, perhaps very soon, one will
no longer
be able to speak of a Ukraine, or of a Ukrainian people, and thus not
even of a
Ukrainian problem, because Ukraine will have become a de facto Russian
region." (See article by Roman Serbyn archived at
http://www.willzuzak.ca/tp/holodomor/serbyn20071119Unian.html)
In
1933, the British government was
complicit in denying the Holodomor, even though it knew that the
eyewitness
testimony of Gareth Jones and Malcolm Muggeridge was true. One would
hope that
in 2008 the British government will finally set things right.
Respectfully
yours
William
Zuzak
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
2008.05.07