The Holodomor - Part 1

Yes, what happened to the Jews was awful. But did you know that Russia attempted to murder an entire country? In the end, they murdered between 7 and 10 million people. Not sure what happened was genocide? The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in December 1948 as General Assembly Resolution 260. The Convention came into effect in January 1951. It defines genocide in legal terms, and is the culmination of years of campaigning by lawyer Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term by reference to the Simele massacre, the Holocaust, and the Armenian Genocide. All participating countries are advised to prevent and punish actions of genocide in war and in peacetime. The number of states that have ratified the convention is currently 140. According to Article 2 of the Convention:

"...any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

No matter how they want to deny it, the Russian government committed an act of genocide against the Ukraine. And they have yet to be punished.

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[flourecentclear]

my Great Great Grandpa escaped the holomodor brought his wife and kids over to the us illegally on his brother's visa

[dblooms347]

I cant believe I never heard of this...........what a terrible shame:-( !

[uwed100]

My grandmother (born 1909 in Ukraine) kept telling me about the

great famine in Ukraine in the early thirties and how people were

collapsing from hunger in the streets....

It wasn´t a topic here in the west though,because Stalin and his

successors managed to keep it a secret to the world.Only after the

collapse of the Soviet Union,it became more widely known.But even now a lot of people in Germany I talked to and who are

interested in history and politics have never heard about it

[sippahhh]

@epmer31 Where have you been living??

[TheTollundWoman]

no wonder hitler and stalin started out as allies. they were both equally evil and destructive