NEW YORK – Back on September 20, 1953, at the Manhattan Center on West 34th Street, an overflow crowd of 3,000 cheered an impassioned speech by Dr. Raphael Lemkin that detailed the Holodomor of 1932-1933. He called it a calculated Soviet attempt to destroy Ukrainian identity and the entire Ukrainian nation, adding this was not simply a horrendous mass murder, but a genocide – part of the Soviets’ larger plan to get rid of the “Ukrainian problem.” A report on his speech made the front page in The Ukrainian Weekly. (The Weekly’s editorial from September 16 of this year analyzed the significance and resonance of this event.)