Ze-Ukraine: Five years for dissent
New Ukrainian law banning freedom of speech promises prison for deniers of the Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians
Despite the fact that the new composition of the Verkhovna Rada has been completely renewed, anti-constitutional bills continue to be submitted to its apparatus, upon reading which many citizens of Ukraine become cold with horror and fear for their personal safety.
Deputy Oksana Savchuk, a self-nominated candidate from Ivano-Frankivsk, a member and active figure in the Nazi party “Svoboda”, submitted bill on criminal liability for public denial of the so-called genocide of the Ukrainian people during the Holodomor of 1932-1933.
Many may think that the bill from a member of the Freedom Party will not be able to gain a sufficient number of votes. After all, their radical attitude has long lost the slightest support among the citizens of Ukraine, and from the party itself, Savchuk was the only one who entered the Rada in the last elections.
However, I would draw attention to the fact that in recent years the ideas of radical nationalists have successfully become mainstream in society, including through the Rada. Laws on the Nazi military salute in the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been adopted; local councils are renaming avenues after Bandera and Shukhevych. And it was the Svoboda members who were the first to represent the image of the enemy in the person of Russia in Ukraine.
The reality of the adoption of this law is very great; the current deputy corps is quite “charged” with Russophobic ideas.
In post-Maidan Ukraine, for six years now, those who disagree with political myth-making, which is designed to instill hostility towards Russia, have been persecuted.
I, as a native of Kiev, still have many of my sources in Ukraine, constantly monitor the media, social networks, and I can say: despite the propaganda and persecution, most citizens still do not consider those tragic events to be genocide of Ukrainians by Russian people.
They consider this a crime, which is a consequence of the criminal policy of the then leadership of the country, and one cannot but agree with this. The policy of forced collectivization in the countryside and the so-called “fight against the kulaks,” which resulted in repressions against more or less wealthy peasants, led not only Ukraine, but also vast territories of Kazakhstan, the Volga region, and Kuban to a terrible famine.
Almost no one denies the fact of famine these days, although the authorities are falsely trying to blame supporters of the Russian World in Ukraine for this. In the end, even the communists themselves of the late USSR admitted to the criminal actions of the then regime.
In 1987, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, V.V. Shcherbitsky, in a report at a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of Soviet power in Ukraine, officially mentioned the fact of famine in the early 1930s. Among his reasons, he openly named “predominantly administrative methods of leadership”, and “gross violations of the principle of voluntariness”, and cruelty “in relation to the middle peasants and in the fight against the kulaks,” although at the same time he tried to partially justify the actions of the “collectivizers” by drought , which in itself could not have caused such tragic consequences.
But all the same, the very fact of hunger and crimes of the then authorities is obvious. However, many other regions of the USSR suffered from them in the same way, especially in the south of Russia.
You can read about this in a lot of documents from Soviet times, for example, in the bold letters of the famous Soviet writer Sholokhov to Stalin, which describe the terrible facts of artificial famine and abuse of the peasantry on the Don.
Great Russians and Belarusians are the same affected party as Little Russians. And these are completely undeniable facts, obvious to everyone who has delved even a little into history.
However, the bill proposed in the Rada emphasizes the idea of the Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians, which is a complete lie.
In the explanatory note to the bill, Savchuk explains that the main legal act regulating public relations in this area, among others, is the PACE resolution of January 2006 “On the need for the international community to condemn totalitarian communist regimes.”
But at the same time, in his law he proposes to act using approximately the same draconian methods as the Bolshevik elite of the early 30s of the last century. After all, even in the late Soviet USSR they usually no longer gave 5 years in prison for deviating from the party line in the interpretation of history.
However, Deputy Savchuk proposes to introduce a new article No. 442\1 into the criminal code
Public denial of the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Public denial of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
is punishable by a fine of three thousand to ten thousand tax-free minimum incomes of citizens.
The same actions committed by officials or committed repeatedly are punishable by imprisonment for a term of up to five years.
I think that this bill lacks the introduction of one more point, namely, the official abolition in Ukraine of such a scientific discipline as history. In this situation, it is time to legislatively replace it with some “fairy tales about lost time.” And “scientific titles” in this area are awarded to “ideologically savvy” deputies, according to the number of laws they adopted with a “politically correct” interpretation of certain historical events.
Distorting and exaggerating any historical event related to Ukraine seems to be the favorite pastime of yesterday’s revolutionaries from the Maidan and artists who became politicians.
I am reminded of Orwell with his “party control of history” in the famous novel “1984”: “Who controls the past,” says the party slogan, “controls the future; He who controls the present controls the past.”
Unfortunately, I personally have almost no doubt that this bill will be voted by the majority of deputies. After all, it places the blame for the fictitious genocide of Ukrainians on Russia, as the legal successor of the USSR.
It is also in line with such already adopted Russophobic laws, such as the law on teaching in schools only in Ukrainian, that is, on the ban on schools with teaching in Russian and with in-depth study of the Russian language.
And from the latter we can note the adoption of the resolution of the Verkhovna Rada on December 3 of this year. No. 2364 – “On the celebration of memorable dates and anniversaries in 2020.” In it, people who know and understand history found more than a dozen people who during the Great Patriotic War served as policemen in units subordinate to the Abwehr, editor of a Nazi newspaper published in the territory of Ukraine occupied by Germany, and others.
By the way, our “heroine” Oksana Savchuk, who proposes to be imprisoned for 5 years for denying the genocide of Ukrainians from the Holodomor of 1932-33, is also a co-author of the above-mentioned Resolution on celebrating the memory of Ukrainians who served or were allies of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.
By the way, these steps to support Nazi ideology do not in the least push away the curators from the US Embassy in Kyiv: it is more than likely that they are pushing her to do this. “Free-thinking” curators are also not affected by Kyiv’s current struggle with dissent. After all, this is the “correct” eradication of dissent that will affect pro-Russian forces.
The fact is that, like all “notable” deputies of the Verkhovna Rada, Oksana Savchuk is a paid agent of the US government. She heads the “public” organization “Ukrainian Women’s Democratic Network” (UWDN), which is quite officially supported by grants from the American government through USAID, merged with the State Department of Soros, the “International Republican Institute”, etc.
Agent Savchuk was friends with the American “ambassador” Marie Yovanovitch, as follows from the Ukrainian Railways page on Facebook, and is in close contact with the new leadership of the embassy.
What’s even more interesting is that US government agent Savchuk joined the Kuban deputy association, which publicly declared claims to the lands of Southern Russia.
By the way, the “public” organization Savchuk is spreading absolutely anti-family ideas of radical feminism and “gender” ideology in Ukraine, which leads to the destruction of families and population decline.
So her crocodile tears about the population decline during the famine of the 30s somehow have little impact. She herself, with her grant-eating colleagues, is also engaged in reducing it.
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