The Myth of the Ukrainian Holodomor – Part IV

Storozhenko ends his piece with this nicely formulated paragraph:

The Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holodomor was instituted in the Ukraine 20 years ago.  Not in order to (actually) honor their memories, but in order to win an election.  And so it has remained ever since:  An annual injection of lies and hatred.
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The Myth of the Ukrainian Holodomor – Part III

Dear Readers: Continuing with this piece from VZGLIAD, by analyst Nikolai Storozhenko.  The title of the piece describes exactly the condundrum we encounter here: How the Myth of the Holodomor Got Turned Into a Holiday of Hatred Towards Russians Indeed.  One of the ironies of this Ukrainian mythologizing, as we discussed yesterday, is the bait-and-switch…
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The Myth of the Ukrainian Holodomor – Part II

Dear Readers: Continuing with this piece from VZGLIAD, by analyst Nikolai Storozhenko.  Yesterday we saw how the wily Ukrainian politician Leonid Kuchma implemented the November “Day of Remembrance of Victims of the Famine” to help him to win the 1999 Presidential election by appeasing Ukrainian Nationalists.  The latter, inspired by the decades-old diaspora forces, had…
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The Myth of the Ukrainian Holodomor – Part I

Dear Readers: Today I have this piece from VZGLIAD, by analyst Nikolai Storozhenko.  It was written yesterday, November 24, the day on which the Ukrainian government and their Nationalist satellites around the world, pull out all the stops to commemorate an event that never happened.  Namely the genocide (by Russia) against the Ukrainian people. 
— Read on awfulavalanche.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/the-myth-of-the-ukrainian-holodomor-part-i/