Posted on 06/02/2025 12:06:57 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III
Holodomor
The Ukrainian Genocide
"In the case of the Holodomor, this was the first genocide that was methodically planned out and perpetrated by depriving the very people who were producers of food of their nourishment (for survival). What is especially horrific is that the withholding of food was used as a weapon of genocide and that it was done in a region of the world known as the ‘breadbasket of Europe’.” – Prof. Andrea Graziosi, University of Naples.
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In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians were forcibly moved thousands of miles. Millions more were starved to death. The Soviet Union, in its classic, collectivist mode, took all of the food, and all of the seed to plant and grow more food.
There is an amazing movie about the intrepid Gareth Jones. Jones actually dared to travel to the Ukraine to see for himself. The movie is titled: Mr Jones. Not only does the movie tell the truth about the Soviet Terror Famine, it depicts, accurately, the evil NY Times creep Walter Duranty, and how Duranty covered up the truth.
There is also this book:
Gareth Jones: Eyewitness to the Holodomor by Ray Gamache
“”This is the first academic study of Gareth Jones, now recognized as one of the first journalists to reveal the horror of the Holodomor, the Soviet government-induced famine in the early 1930s which killed millions of Ukrainians. Of interest to students of journalism, eastern-European history, and political studies, this book provides a fascinating insight about one of the most devastating events of the 20th century and the social, economic, and political factors that contributed to the famine. A fluent Russian speaker, Jones travelled as a foreign affairs adviser to David Lloyd George and Ivy Lee, two of the most influential people at that time. The Aberystwyth and Cambridge-educated Jones investigated reports denied by the Soviet government that their Five-Year Plan had led to mass starvation by visiting the affected region and living with the Ukrainian people. Gareth Jones’s numerous articles, published in the UK (Evening Standard, Daily Express, and Western Mail), as well as those written about him in the US (New York Evening News and Chicago Daily News), exposed the Holodomor, but Jones’s credibility and integrity were immediately attacked and denigrated by the Soviet government and its sympathizers within the journalistic profession, including Walter Duranty of the New York Times.””
Here are a few links to the website dedicated to Gareth Jones.
https://www.garethjones.org/
https://www.garethjones.org/eyewitness.html
Saw a similar movie where a buddy kills himself over the lies-that mighta been it. There’s no way a movie could get too close to accurate. Starving people are not to photogenic. One book had a dying parent beg her children to eat her.
I don’t see how any Ukrainian could forgive. It was so bad they saw the Nazis as liberators. Do the Chicoms forgive Japan for the rape of Nanking?
Stay out of it Don.
The New York Times covered up the Ukrainian Famine and the Holocaust as well. Many in Ukraine were Jews who had suffered through Pogroms as well. Their attitude was that the evil will pass, as it always has. Unfortunately, millions died and the Pogroms continue under another name. The current ‘Free Palestine’ Communist-fascist plot is nothing new, but people had their Jewish hatred build up because they were unable to act on it until October 7th. I have a friend who was the last survivor of his whole family in Ukraine and I asked him why they didn’t leave in 1933, after the Famine of Holodomor, and he said that his family believed the ‘world’ would not let the same mistakes continue. He was wrong, although he said that there were a few Jews in his town that were armed, and did resist. They were killed on the day that the soldiers showed up and demand that they all stand in front of their houses with all the possessions they could carry on themselves. They were informed that anyone refusing would be shot to death on that day. My friend lived to be 90 and passed away a few years ago.
Bkmk
My grandmother survived “holodomor”. “Ukrainians” that starved were mostly Russian farmers. There were some Ukrainians for sure, but according to her, mostly Russian. She was born in Kiev and always considered herself only Russian nothing else. That’s how communism works, the state gets everything, the people get nothing, no matter what nationality.
As many Russian Kulaks were killed. Socialists are socialists…whether Ukrainian or Russian
As many Russian Kulaks were killed. Socialists are socialists…whether Ukrainian or Russian
bttt
My grandfather was born in Kiev and was adamant that he was Russian. Somehow he and his brother got out of the area early by joining the American army and fighting in WWI. His parents died shortly after he left.
Robert Conquest in his boot “Harvest of Sorrow” wrote “In the actions here recorded, about 20 human lives were lost not for every word, but for every letter in this book”
The books is 347 pages.
Add in Robert Conquest’s ‘The Harvest of Sorrow’
Here is a very well done, award winning documentary about Stalin’s terror famine in Ukraine in 1933. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsM3YoPiloE
Even though this documentary won many awards at different film festivals, PBS at first, refused to air it as a historical and educational film in 1986.I guess they were reluctant to criticize Stalin for his engineered mass murder of millions of Ukrainians the film documented.
(Sounds like the Putinistas of today are using some talking points from the apologists for Stalin’s engineered terror famine back then to support Putins brutal invasion of Ukraine now.)
It was only after Congress threatened to cut the PBS funding did they grudgingly agree to air it and sneaked it into a political discussion with no previous advertising which was opposite normal procedure for a historic documentary of its caliber.
Russia..the inbred SOBs of Europe for centuries.
In private Duranty estimated 10 million dead. He did not report this because The New York Times, according to Duranty, had an agreement with the Soviet government that his dispatches always reflect the opinion of the Soviet government. https://holodomorct.org/holodomor-information-links/holodomor-primary-sources
the same cover up happened with the Katyn Forest massacre.
I’ve been talking about the Holodomor for years. I have sometimes called it the Ukrainian holocaust. I don’t see every episode of government mass murder as unique. There is a common element, government mass murder.
Magnitudes matter. As a common yardstick, whenever a government murders 6 million or so people, I call it a holocaust. The three greatest mass murderers in history were, in descending order, Mao, Stalin and Hitler. They were communist, communist and socialist. Viewing communists as being international socialists, they were all socialists. Not all socialist leaders are mass murderers, but the great mass murderers were socialists. Socialism gives them the power and some abuse their power through mass murder.
It seems like the Holodomor is finally getting some attention. Why now? To tarnish Putin and Russia. Now Stalin loving Democrats can blame Putin for the Holodomor. It works at an emotional level. Intellectually, it makes no sense. Putin is not Stalin. Russia is not the communist Soviet Union.
The Holodomor is an eternally valid topic. However, trotting it out now seems manipulative and dishonest.
Democide is the biggest mass killer in history.
The jews were the ones killing the Ukrainians and stealing. The land from the German Mennonites
It’s finally getting attention because people are finally studying the real history. Not the misinformation from the media and academia. Yes Jews are responsible for over a millions of deaths. I would argue hundreds dollof millions when they spread communism.
Thanks for posting. BTTT
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