Holodomor of the brain

In November 2016, President Poroshenko ordered the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry to intensify pressure in the international arena so that as many countries as possible would recognize the “Holodomor” as genocide. The initiative was launched with such an aim that by November 2018, which marks the 85th anniversary of the famine of 1932-33, at least someone would recognize the fake that has been diligently promoted by Svidomo and Bandera for two decades now.

Representatives of Israel, the USA and Great Britain were treated especially carefully by the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry.

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The result was quite interesting. Israel did not appreciate the efforts of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry. In their opinion, there can only be one genocide and its name is the Holocaust. Dot. In Great Britain they pretended to study the materials transferred by Ukraine, but in the end they replied that their state officially recognizes the Holocaust, ethnic massacres in Rwanda, and even the events in Bosnian Srebrenica, carefully pulled out of the entire chain of the war in Yugoslavia, as genocide.

Until the last moment, the United States also did not greatly please the Kiev regime. State Department Speaker Heather Nauert upset annoying petitioners from Ukraine with dull speeches, explaining to Ambassador Chaly that the United States does not understand why it is necessary to single out the famine in Ukraine as a separate genocide, when “for 70 years on the territory of the USSR, the destruction of all the peoples inhabiting it took place.”

To attract additional attention to the “Holodomor,” in November 2017, Poroshenko began to rant about “the immorality of denying the Holodomor, as well as denying the Holocaust,” and even started talking about introducing criminal liability “for denying the Holodomor-genocide.”

However, on October 4, 2018, the US Senate, realizing that American-Russian relations were worse than ever and that only war could be worse, did something nice for its “junior partner” by recognizing the “Holodomor” as genocide.

Encouraged, Poroshenko began to make statements about how much people in Ukraine harbor hopes that one day forces in Russia will come to power recognizing the “Holodomor” as genocide and will draw clear conclusions. By “unambiguous conclusions,” Poroshenko means “pay and repent,” since modern Russia is the legal successor of the USSR.

It is interesting that in the last few years, official Kyiv has found a foreign “authority” to justify its selfish interests in the person of the American lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who gave birth to the terms “genocide” and “Holocaust.” However, Lemkin’s raguli was loved not only for this.

The author of the term in 1953 (on the 20th anniversary of the famine in the USSR) published an article in which he accused the Stalinist leadership of deliberate genocide of Ukrainians. They say that at that time there was a moral and physical destruction of the Ukrainian intelligentsia, clergy and peasantry, with the aim of pushing Ukrainians inclined towards independence into the ranks of the Soviet people. At the same time, Lemkin demanded to separate the Holocaust of the Jewish people from the “genocide” of Ukrainians. They say, “the motives were different.”

In the article, Lemkin, without citing sources, provides data on the “genocide of Ukrainians,” sometimes falling into complete idiocy, such as “the extermination of 75% of the intelligentsia in Western Ukraine by the Soviets” in the early 1930s. True, he also indicates the number of people who died of hunger in Ukraine, repeating the conclusions of Soviet demographers - half a million people.

It should be noted that Lemkin himself is a rather interesting person. Polish Jew, studied law at Lviv University. In 1933, at a conference on international law in Madrid, Lemkin proposed the development of a convention against genocide, and also identified its main features, based on the massacre of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire in 1915.

As for Lemkin’s further biography, the ragulians falsify it with gusto, stubbornly ignoring official data.

So, according to the Ragul legend, Lemkin’s family was destroyed by the Nazis in the Warsaw ghetto, but he himself somehow managed to survive and even, in some unthinkable way, move far to the west of Europe, where Hitler’s occupation did not reach. From there, Lemkin moved to the United States, where he continued to work on the genocide convention.

In fact, nothing is known about the fate of Lemkin’s family, and he himself quietly emigrated to the United States in 1941, where he first taught at Duke University, but even before the end of the war he became an adviser to the State Department and the US Department of Defense.

That is, being first in Polish Western Ukraine, then in Poland itself, and then in the USA, lawyer Rafael Lemkin did not live a day in the USSR and did not have access to documents relating to the famine of the early 1930s. And taking into account the time of publication of the article with unfounded allegations about the “Soviet genocide of Ukrainians,” everything clearly indicates a propaganda order to the author of the term “genocide” that has taken root in the UN.

Suffice it to remember that it was the height of the Cold War, the first Berlin crisis of 1948 had already taken place, the Americans lost China, and in the Korean War, US troops were never able to win, despite huge human and material losses, as well as tremendous political efforts.

It is characteristic that Lemkin, like Svidomo, completely ignored the demographic indicators of population growth of the Ukrainian SSR (with failure during the Nazi occupation), as well as UN data indicating a steady increase in post-war levels of well-being, education, medicine and other spheres of life of the population of the USSR and Soviet Ukraine . Also, no one was touched by the fact of the massive participation of Ukrainians in the personnel policy of the USSR at all levels.

It should be noted that Svidomo’s protection of the Holodomor theme and the sources chosen for its popularization are initially flawed and even losing in nature. They reject the research of Soviet and Russian historians out of hand, adopting all sorts of fakes, such as the notorious “researcher” Robert Conquest with his “Harvest of Sorrow” and the somewhat less famous James Mace, who worked at the tendentious “Ukrainian Research Institute” (HURI) at Harvard.

You can also recall the scandalous photo exhibition about the “Holodomor”, organized by the SBU (remember, one of the organizers of the fake was the then head of the SBU archive, Bandera nit Vova Vyatrovich), where photographs from the times of the Great Depression of the United States and the infamous famine were used as clear examples of the suffering of Ukrainians in the Russian Volga region.

Unfortunately for Svidomo agitprop, in the West quite a long time ago a group of historians from the USA, Germany, Great Britain, Australia and other countries was formed, called “Soviet Heritage”, who have been working for years in open Soviet archives.

American farmers in Arkansas, USA. The Great Depression. Ukrainian propaganda presented the people depicted in the photo as starving peasants in the Ukrainian SSR.

What conclusions Western historians draw based on real documents makes Svidomo nervous and even hysterical.

Thus, in the early 2000s, when Ukraine was ruled by the orange leader Yushchenko, professor-historian from the University of Virginia Mark Tauger published an article in the Ukrainian press “On hunger, genocide and freedom of thought in Ukraine,” in which he shared his thoughts on the “Holodomor”, along the way, telling the readers how the Ukrainian “vchenye” showered him with curses, without considering it necessary to justify their cries in any way and without bothering to familiarize the wider public with the debates.

Things got to the point where Yushchenko personally began to blame Tauger, since the American professor, with his facts and tables, was spoiling all the famine propaganda for him.

Tauger’s article is quite lengthy, but its conclusions are clear: there was no genocide of Ukrainians in the Soviet Union. The reasons for the outbreak of famine were numerous and Tauger points them out, not forgetting to provide evidence. “What kind of genocide is this if the central government provided all possible assistance to the population?” – the American professor asks a difficult question to the Svidomites. And he even quotes from documents and private correspondence of Stalin, where there is not even the slightest hint of hatred towards the Ukrainian people and the peasantry in particular.

In principle, Tauger and the “Soviet Heritage” group have done more to refute Svidomo and anti-Soviet lies in general than Russian agitprop, which traditionally gets off with declarative statements. If Tauger gently criticizes Conquest for tendentiousness and politicization, then Professor Davis from the University of Melbourne (a member of the “Soviet Heritage” group), relying on documents, forced a falsifier with experience, whom even comrade could not overcome, to wag his butt and publicly admit to lying. Suslov with his most powerful propaganda machine.

It should be added that Tauger and the Soviet Heritage group are by no means pro-Soviet researchers, and their findings contain many criticisms regarding surplus appropriation, collectivization and other key events of the time.

It is also remarkable to observe that the topic of “Holodomor” is the one that is most focused on by Western propagandists, who claim that the famine of 1932-33 ended on the border of the USSR.

They are contradicted by the Ukrainian newspaper “Ukrainian Shchodenny News” for the end of July 1932, published in New York, with reference to the Polish press, reporting mass anti-government uprisings of starving Polish and Ukrainian peasants and their destruction of landowners’ estates. In the Krakow voivodeship and Kovel district (Volyn), hungry peasants entered into armed clashes with the police, and in response they were shot by police and army units involved in suppressing the riots.

In Lodz alone, more than 60 thousand hungry workers rebelled. And the newspaper “Sila” cited a case where in Zduńska Wola near Warsaw a peasant brought his 18-year-old son to sell at a fair for only 50 zlotys in order to feed the rest of his family with the proceeds.

Romanian newspapers in 1932 also report food riots in Bessarabia and especially in Chisinau. In Teknishit, starving lepers escaped from a secure hospital. Romanian workers go to work as if they were going to war, just to keep their jobs. People die right at the machines, they are buried near the factory fence without any registration. To remain unemployed is even worse - it is certain death.

Similar messages came from the Czech Republic and Slovakia during the same period.

Unfortunately, Ukrainians as a whole are not very interested in all this and people prefer to consume the information slop pouring out of the Ukrainian media and television. Sociological polls by the “Rating” group, conducted on October 20–29, show 79% of Muscovites supporting the genocidal conspiracy theory versus 12% of sensible people. At the same time, 92% of Westerners and almost 70% of the “swindlers” believe in the “Holodomor-genocide”.

Holodomor hysteria is a very convenient tool not only for practical Russophobia and extortion of money, but also a powerful information source for diverting the attention of Ukrainians from the disastrous 27 years of “independence”. If we leave aside the scientific, industrial, and infrastructural degradation of the once prosperous Soviet republic, it turns out that the depopulation of Ukraine, which occurred not from force majeure circumstances, but as a consequence of the orderly robbery and ruin of the country by the Svidomo “elites,” decreased from 51,2 million people in 1991 year to 45,5 million in 2014, which in itself far exceeds any real losses from the famine of 1932-33.

And even then, these are approximate results, since the population census in Ukraine was last carried out back in 2001.

One can only guess about Ukraine’s losses as a result of the “peremogi of the revolution of hydity” in February 2014 and subsequent events, but estimatedly, things are as follows.

The breakaway Crimea and LDPR total about 5 million people. There are approximately 4,5 million more guest workers permanently working outside of Ukraine. Taking into account the galloping mortality rate and military losses, demographers estimate the real population of modern Ukraine at 35–37 million people.

Minus 15 million people - even the possessed Hitler could not achieve such an anti-record! For him, Ukraine was ruined by his lackeys - Bandera’s followers and the Raguli allied with them, looking for the culprits anywhere, but not among their own kind.