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This is from another list, a reply to me. I ask for information from people
who are better informed than I am.
knhieb...@shaw.ca
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The mass starvation from the drought of 1932-1933 occurred in Ukraine but it
also in the other parts of the Soviet Union, and it occurred in North America
too where people died as well. The ultranationalist Ukrainians dubbed this the
Holodomor in the late 1970s. The timing of that name creation occurred not
coincidentally very soon after a TV series called "Holocaust" came out and
many many millions in North America saw a dramatisation of Ukrainian
ultranationalists joining with the Nazis in the mass murder of Jews and other
enemies of the Third Reich. The ultranationalists shared the Nazi hatred of
Jews and Communists. These were also the major enemies of Canada and the US as
well at that time, and of other capitalist countries too of course.
I trust the academic reports i've read that say that around 3.3 million died in
Ukraine during that drought period. It was horrendous no doubt. Millions died
elsewhere too from the drought but it is not blamed on the Soviet govt in those
other places.
The ultranationalist very often TRIPLE the number of deaths to 10 million.
They have used this exaggerated figure when competing with the Jewish
community for public education programs (like when they fought the Human Rights
museum in Winnipeg which now has a permanent wing on the Holocaust).
One of the several key reasons that so many died in Ukraine (and yes it was a
higher percent than elsewhere in the USSR) was because the Ukrainian
nationalists organised huge programs to sabotage the Soviet land reform/farm
collectivisation programs that the govt was doing all over the country. The
farm land was owned by a very small number of people and the govt thought that
it would be a more fair system to share the land and the wealth from the land
(ie food) with many people and this meant taking it away from the few who owned
it. Whether this nationalisation was smart, or right or fair or not is another
question.
Robert Conquest wrote a huge tome about the Ukraine and the deaths during the
drought. He was an extremely right-wing scholar who worked for the IRD a
British intelligence agency spreading extremely anticommunist propaganda. He
wrote about the Ukrainian resistance to the Soviet land reform programs and
said that the Ukrainians sabotaged the govt program by slaughtering millions of
their sheep and goat and pigs and other farm animals. It was a huge percent of
their farm animals. 80% as i recall. That happened just before the Holodomor.
One year before? This was one major factor in the deaths of the Ukrainians
who sabotaged the govt's collectivisation programs.. This factor is however
completely ignored and perhaps not even known by ultranationalists like
Chrystia Freeland, even though it was detailed in Conquest's book and they
think the world of Robert Conquest because he was so extremely anticommunist.
Minister Freeland co-authored an article about the Holodomor in an
ultranationalist newspaper (which then and still does rely very heavily on
thousands of news stories fed to them by the RFE/RL. (The RFE/RLstarted as a
CIA propaganda mill in 1949 with the aid of Nazis from eastern Europe).
Freeland co-wrote this when she was about 20 in about 1990. Her article of
course completely blamed the Soviets for all the deaths from the drought. She
quoted Conquest but nothing was mentioned about his data on the sabotage
programs. Freeland's article concluded on the very same page as an
advertisement for a book which openly glorified and honoured the Ukrainian
Waffen SS Galicia as if they were heros of WWII because they fought against the
Soviet Red Army (who were our allies and thankfully they defeated the Nazis
largely on their own, which I am grateful to them for). These "heroes" of
Freeland's community ie., the Waffen SS Galicia were created, armed, financed
by the Nazis and led by Himmler. Thousands of them were brought to Canada in
large part because they promised to oppose the communists in the Ukrainian Cdn
community. A third of all the communists in Canada back in the early 1900s
were Ukrainians and about a third were Jews. These were Canada's main internal
enemies and we brought in tens of thousands fascist supporters including Nazi
war veteran to deal with them. Plus the RCMP helped deal with them too.
We are willing to use Nazis to fight our enemies. We are arming ukraine, which
now has a Nazi Battalion. They are our allies in Russophobia, a mass psychosis
