Holodomor
Media reports on famine. X
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Soviet Analyst
LONDON – The commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Great Famine in Ukraine (1932-33) by Britain’s Ukrainian community as well as a brief overview of events leading up to the man-made tragedy that left some 7 million Ukrainians dead of starvation were the subjects of a recent article by Stephen Courtier in Soviet Analyst, a fortnightly commentary. “To mark the anniversary, a national committee set up by Ukrainians in London has published a 72-page booklet, with illustrations depicting some of the emaciated victims of the famine, resembling scenes from Belsen,” wrote Mr. Courtier. The book’s author, Stephen Oleksiw, said he wrote the book to tell the world of Moscow’s responsibility for the famine and “to prevent similar policies of mass extermination from occurring ever again.” Mr. Courtier also mentioned a recent demonstration in London commemorating the famine, during which organizers demanded that the United Nations and other organizations set up an international tribunal to investigate the famine. According to Mr. Courtier, the “terror for Ukrainians” began with Soviet resistance to Ukrainian independence shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, which culminated with the collapse of the Ukrainian National Republic in the early 1920s.