Many years ago I had a book called Harvest of Sorrow which tells all the horrors of the Holodomor - The Ukrainian Genocide - which was conducted between 1932 and 1933 by the Stalinist regime of Soviet Russia. Ethnic Russians were then imported to the Ukraine to take the place of the Ukrainians who had been starved to death. [Hence all the Russian speakers now living in the vicinity of Donetsk and Luhansk. SCL] At that time the western part of the present-day Ukraine was still a province of Poland, and thus escaped the horrors of the Holodomor. After World War II, the western part of the Ukraine (formerly belonging politically to Poland) was occupied by Soviet troops, and annexed to the Soviet Socialist Republic of the Ukraine, a puppet republic of the Soviet Union. The western Ukraine now experienced the same Stalinist terror as their eastern brethren had in 1932. From 1945 till Stalins death, many were deported to Siberia to die. This same fate befell the populations of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Karelia (eastern Finland) and Bessarabia (Moldavia, former Romanian province). [Albertus Defm]
Posted on: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 09:24:43 +0000
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