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U.S. Senate Says Stalin 'Committed Genocide' In Famine-Hit Ukraine
RFE/RL ^ | Oct 2018 | Mark Najarian

Posted on 10/06/2018 7:16:42 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Senate has adopted a resolution recognizing that Soviet dictator Josef Stalin committed genocide against the Ukrainian people in the early 1930s, when millions died in a horrific famine known as the Holodomor.

The office of Republican Senator Rob Portman, who sponsored the bill, did not immediately get back to RFE/RL for comment. Asked for comment, the State Department referred to a 2017 statement that described the Holodomor as "one of the most atrocious acts of the 20th century.

The "simple resolution" passed on October 3 commemorates the 85th anniversary of the famine of 1932-33.

The Senate "recognizes the findings of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine as submitted to Congress on April 22, 1988, including that...'Stalin and those around him committed genocide against the Ukrainians in 1932–1933,'" it said.

Millions of people died in the famine, which many Ukrainians consider to have been caused by Soviet central planners as an act of genocide, aimed at wiping out Ukrainian farmers.

The Ukrainian Embassy in Washington described the resolution as the "first-ever legal act" of Congress recognizing the tragedy as a genocide, a highly charged term that is likely to anger Moscow.

Russian historians, and others, have stopped short of saying the famine was engineered to kill Ukrainians, noting that many other ethnic groups also suffered.

(Excerpt) Read more at rferl.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: famine; genocide; history; holodomor; katyn; poland; putinsbuttboys; robportman; russia; skinheadshardesthit; stalin; ukraine; ussr; worldwar2; wwii
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"U.S. lawmakers have introduced similar resolutions in the past on politically charged historical events, like the massacre of Armenians in Turkey during World War I. Most historians and a growing number of countries consider the killings to constitute genocide.

The White House, under pressure from Turkey, has stopped short of using the word "genocide" to describe the Ottoman-era massacre."

1 posted on 10/06/2018 7:16:42 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I am amazed that Democrats would turn on their hero and role model like this. Are they trying a feeble attempt to redeem themselves after using Stalinist tactics against Kavanaugh?


2 posted on 10/06/2018 7:20:42 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Though much more light needs shedding on the Soviet Unions criminal regime, revealing Stalins manmade famine it is a good start. Shedding light on the Soviet Union needs doing because its political and scientistic religion and utopian aspirations are the religiously held system of Americas Progressive Left.


3 posted on 10/06/2018 7:24:50 AM PDT by spirited irish
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Wow, I just checked and it was passed unanimously. Not one Democrat voted against it. They are running scared and are hoping this will wash off a bit of the Stalinist stink before the election.

S.Res.435 - A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 85th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine.

4 posted on 10/06/2018 7:26:33 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Meanwhile, the communists in Hollywood were pledging allegiance, and donating money to Stalin and his cause. They partied in their mansions and sipped champagne while millions died. If Stalinists did take control of the U.S., it would have been nice to see the expressions on the faces of the Hollywood phonies as they faced a firing squad made up of their comrades.


5 posted on 10/06/2018 7:31:11 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I’m in the middle of reading “Harvest of Sorrow” by Robert Conquest. This book is thought to be one of the best, most definitive historical accounts of the Holodomor.

It’s a tough, serious read. But important.

Despicable, heinous people.


6 posted on 10/06/2018 7:32:31 AM PDT by Dana1960
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

——Not one Democrat voted against it.-——

That’s not surprising at all...soviet style socialism was an object failure...

Democratic socialism is the new and improved version which will work....with people like Sanders and Cortez running it....

How could it fail with brilliant people like those two as party leaders....?

/ sarcasm


7 posted on 10/06/2018 7:34:32 AM PDT by Popman ("GOD´S NOT LOOKING FOR PARTNERSHIP WITH US, BUT OWNERSHIP OF US")
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Of course, Comrade Commissar Khrushchev had no responsibility - pure as the wind driven snow, so to speak.


8 posted on 10/06/2018 7:35:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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Of course, Comrade Commissar Khrushchev had no responsibility - pure as the wind driven snow, so to speak.

The reason Crimea became a part of the Ukraine, was that Khrushchev needed the support of the Ukrainians in his power bid after Stalin's death. So he threw them a bone by offering the Ukrainian SSR the Crimea.

9 posted on 10/06/2018 7:40:10 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Comrades! No one starved in the Ukraine, they were only hungry. I know this is so, it was in the NYT, Amerika’s Pravda.


10 posted on 10/06/2018 7:44:19 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (What is earned is treasured, what is free is worth what you paid for it.)
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To: spirited irish

You are spot on concerning the worship of the USSR by the American Left. The useful idiots in the USA used to say that the genocide was “Land Reform.” Seriously, there were commies in the USA who worshiped the genocide.


11 posted on 10/06/2018 7:44:46 AM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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I wonder what the NYT has to say about the Senate stating that about Stalin?
12 posted on 10/06/2018 7:45:19 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966)
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So he threw them a bone by offering the Ukrainian SSR the Crimea.


The bone he threw came from the pile of bones made by the 3 million people he deliberately starved to death.


13 posted on 10/06/2018 7:55:08 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Thats what Obama did when he weaponized a security against the incumbent Trump


14 posted on 10/06/2018 8:04:48 AM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Now just waiting for the NY Times to admit it also.


15 posted on 10/06/2018 8:05:32 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Golly. It only took them about 90 years to come to that conclusion.


16 posted on 10/06/2018 8:17:00 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Bringbackthedraft

The New York Times is not amused. Comrades, there will be consequences. Walther Duranty is not to be mocked.


17 posted on 10/06/2018 8:20:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: PGR88

The New York Times is not amused; Walter Duranty is not mocked.

Comrades, there will be consequences.


18 posted on 10/06/2018 8:24:14 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: spirited irish
The Harvest of Despair
19 posted on 10/06/2018 8:36:46 AM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Of course, the mass murder wasn’t just confined to the Ukraine, but to the Khazaks and the Cossacks at the Kuban River, also. They too died in great numbers.


20 posted on 10/06/2018 8:44:18 AM PDT by Stepan12 (It is Civll War right now..)
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