To commission of Zinkivska Rayonna Rada
of Peoples Deputies on Rehabilitation for Renewal
of Peoples Rights from Fesenko Marina Illinichna,
Frunze str.103, town Zinkiv, 38100, Poltava.obl. the Ukraine.
Birth: June 15,1926.
Request for Exhoneration.
Tragedy of ousting has happened to our family on December 19, 1932. Cannibalization local brigade night called at a house at two o'clock. The brigade of 6 men, among them: Nosik P, Babich Fiodor, Konuc Ivan, Lisenko Kirilo, Kononenko Ivan, Schmurko Oleksandr (the father's brother - in - law). We had already been sleeping when they intruded by force into the house. They came with clubs, leaving the doors open. It was very cold outdoors. They grabbed us sleeping and ordered to put only one clothing on (mother put two skirts, however they disconnected her with one). They carried four children away and put them on the sleighs. At the moment, mother was with infant in arms. She held him close to her bosom. They ordered parents out, seat them near the children, removed downhill Hmarivka (remote settlement), and chucked out into the snowdrifts.
Parents
Shmurko Ievdokia Markivna, born in 1887
Shmurko Ilia Gurievich, born in 1897
Children
Anastasia Illinichna, born in 1919
Stefan Ilich, born in1922
Marina Illinichna, born in 1926
Ievdokia Illinichna, born in 1930
Ivan Ilich, born in 1932
Parents were engaged in private farming as individuals. Before Rozkurkuluvanniya (kulak's Ousting) nothing was told to us further to reasons of decision on our ousting. Without court and the consequences all of property had been confiscated, bleeding us white. They confiscated family in a collective farm Bolshevik, now (Shevchenko)* from the most necessary, first of all from a horse, the cow with a small calf, all remnant, harness, two wooden barns, stabling, shore, building and facilities well made of wood, covered with iron.
The property was sold out on bids, however a wooden house covered with iron (not yet returned), still reminds fellow-villagers about the orphans of collectivization. They call it Shmurko's House. A teacher lives in the house.
The family came apart at the seams between - people. Father Shmurko Ilia Gurievich was evicted to work at a sugar-beet state farm in Chupakhovka, and sick with quinsy died in 1933 in spring. Mother Shmurko Ievdokia Markivna took away five children to khutor Puelulepenku to work at a collective farm "Nezamoszhnuk" for the fellow-villagers, kindly sheltered her in an empty house.
First we wandered without a place to sleep, than a dug-out was a shelter for smaller, grandfather's stable in a hay for older, and a house served as overnight shelter, for the people were very much afraid to admit us to stay in, under the strict commandment issued to frighten sympathizers. Mother went to work at a collective farm, the elder children, 15 years old Anastasia had already worked in a part on beet cultivation, and the brother Stefan shepherded. I Marina went to work as a farm laborer. Growing Ievdokia and Vania worked at a collective farm also.
God altogether knows how we have survived. There was neither clothes, nor bed no meal, we used acacia blossom, dock for food, baked great nettle biscuits. Everyone was swollen without food, rickety. The abdomens with black entrails starved transparent. We slept on a straw, there was no even a blanket on, only empty table and no furniture in the house. But for all difficulties, we have survived.
The brother Stephan is the WW II soldier. After the war Stephan and Anastasia worked as tractor operators at a collective farm, named after Shevchenko. Stephan is a pensioner and Anastasia died in 1990. Brother Ivan Ilich has completed vocational school and working in Kremenchuk now. I, Marina Illinichna and Ievdokia worked in public catering establishment, and now we are pensioners, we live in town Zinkiv. All this can be confirmed by the eyewitnesses, the fellow-villagers which are still alive.
I ask Commission to make a decision, to return our «native nest»-the house, where we were born the—beloved children—instead of kulak's degenerates an alias. We have received neither education no marriage portion, went to school barefooted until frosts, and had neither book no pencil, while so vital was to study, became Young Pioneers or members of the Komsomol. The memory for the parents and family is the most prescious for us and there is no other compensation that could heal "wounds" outraged to the family.*
MARINA FESENKO
*At present agro firm "BURAT"
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Prize winner who spent 8 years in Gulag labor camps in Siberia and 3 years in exile and who is hardly a "Communist regime sympathizer" wrote about the Holodomor campaign in 2008:
"This provocateurs outcry about "genocide" began to emerge decades later - first secretly, in the musty chauvinistic minds, viciously opposed to "Muscovites" - and now ascended to government circles of today's Ukraine, to surpass even the dashing swirls of Bolshevik propaganda "
DrMundo74 8 months ago 2
@DrMundo74
Thks fr com-t.
Politicians are mistaken,
they often apply the law of contrast & "visual illusion" to interpretation of Holodomor.
What we see and understand is affected by the context in which we see and interpret it.
If Ukraine is the "object" and dark history is a darker context, the object will look brighter than it really is.
Solzhenitsyn means not Holodomor itself, yet the representation of Holodomor.
And the last remark is that Holodomor is not a background, yet a foreground.
fesenko 8 months ago
The Famine of 1932-33 is a fact, presenting it as a genocide of Ukrainians is a deliberate lie.
Unfortunately sometimes no one even cares about true facts. I think the best ever written book about the proliferation of "Holodomor-genocide" myth is "Fraud, Famine, and Fascism" by Douglas Tottle. Just Google the name...
DrMundo74 8 months ago
Re: @DrMundo74
If take a look with joined-up thinking; the Famine of 1932-33 is a genocide. Thanks for empathy, you are living outside of Ukraine and understand it.
fesenko 8 months ago
западные украинцы забывают что голодомор-следствие жидовских комиссаров, от которых испытала геноцид и Россия
Ejeska 3 years ago
This story is an illustration or example of what can happen on a normal day in Ukraine.
fesenko 3 years ago