Holodomor
Media reports on famine. XX
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London Daily Telegraph
LONDON – Prof. Robert Conquest, the author of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute and UNA-commissioned book about the famine, made what he considers “a small contribution to the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine,” by writing a commentary on Stalin’s treatment of Ukrainian peasants in the Saturday Column of the London Daily Telegraph dated November 5. Dr. Conquest describes the man-made famine as being “completely localized, affecting only Ukraine and the Ukrainian-speaking regions of the North Caucasus.” He said: “First all the grain was taken; then the seed grain; then the houses and yards were searched and dug up, and any store of bread seized. They lived on a few potatoes; then on birds and cats and dogs, and then on acorns and nettles; and in early spring they died.” He went on to say: “There is no doubt that it was a conscious act of terror against the Ukrainian peasantry.