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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/30/world/europe/ukraine-separatists-rewrite-history-of-1930s-famine.html
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Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII. Part 1
WWII
Article by: James Oliver
The Ukrainians carried at least 40% of losses of the USSR in WWII. The
Soviet historiographical concept of the “Great Patriotic War,” however,
employed major misperceptions of the Ukrainians’ role and is now being
used as a propaganda instrument fueling the war in Donbas. In our series
“Understanding the Ukrainians in WWII” we seek to uncover the
underreported role of Ukrainians living both in Ukraine and abroad in
the most deadly war of the 20th century.
On April 11 1935, a document titled “Valuable Declarations” was
published in translated form for the eyes of the top brass of the Polish
army. The author was Wsiewołod Zmijenko, a Ukrainian born Polish general
who had served in Odessa during the Polish-Soviet war of 1920. His work
was an attempt to see the Holodomor for what it was despite the fog of
Soviet misinformation. “The Soviet government” he wrote “firmly denies
the fact of the famine in Ukraine. This was the basis for turning down
the [offer from] European organizations to bring in relief aid. The
dissemination of information of the famine was dubbed as slandering [The
USSR]. […] The letters from the people condemned to death from
starvation were of no help, nor the reports from the correspondents, nor
the photos brought in from Ukraine with great difficulties and at great
risk. Everything was denied; the material evidence was described as a
plot by the bourgeois against the proletarian state. […] So far the
Ukrainian and foreign press were full of all types of information on the
consequences of the famine in Ukraine. Numbers of 10,000,000, 6,000,000
& 2,000,000 victims were quoted, but the [Soviet] government refused to
accept them. Today, it also does not accept it and probably will never
admit it officially.”
full:
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/05/08/understanding-the-ukrainians-in-wwii-part-1/
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