"Ukraine Separatists Rewrite History of 1930s Famine" Topic
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| Tango01 | 30 Apr 2015 11:29 p.m. PST |
"Yevdokiya was still a young girl, her nephew recalled, when the neighbors invited her over for a social occasion of some sort. This was during the great famine of 1933, he said, and her family became alarmed when she failed to return.
She never did come home, said the nephew, Aleksandr S. Khodakovsky, now a senior official in the Russian-backed separatist government of the Donetsk People's Republic. To their horror, her parents discovered that she had been cannibalized by the desperate neighbors, not an uncommon occurrence in a famine that killed 3.3 million people, by most estimates.
Traditionally, Ukrainian historians have characterized the famine as a genocide, the direct result of Stalin's forced collectivization and the Soviet government's requisitioning of grain for export abroad, leaving Ukraine short — and its borders sealed shut. Since Ukraine gained independence, that is what its students have been taught…"
Full article here
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Armand |
| Zargon | 01 May 2015 4:58 a.m. PST |
Sorry Armand this was written recently not so? Not during the period of board Early 20th Century Media that you have used, should this not be on Modern Media board?
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| GeoffQRF | 01 May 2015 6:17 a.m. PST |
The article is about recent changes, but it refers to Holodomor, which was in the 1930s |
troopwo  | 01 May 2015 7:33 a.m. PST |
Had neighbours who lved through it. No wonder they cheered the German troops as liberators when they came. |
| jeffreyw3 | 01 May 2015 9:49 a.m. PST |
I would prefer seeing controversial, modern topics like this remain in the Modern sections. |
| Zargon | 01 May 2015 1:54 p.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 01 May 2015 2:59 p.m. PST |
Maybe my mistake when I choose the forum.(?)
But as the theme is from 1930… Hope you enjoyed the article anyway. Amicalement
Armand |
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dips his toe into the Russo-Japanese War.
