Mysterious death of those who told the world about the tragedy of the Holodomor

I remembered that Natalia Dziubenko-Mace, the wife of legendary-scholar James Mace, in her article '' The Day of the Cold Sun'', writes that the faminе(Holodomor) topic even put some people in mortal danger.

The authors Volodymyr Maniek and Lidia Kovalenko suddenly died: Volodymyr in a car crash and Lidia from a heart attack. Death also claimed the life of Oleksa Musienko, who was the first to call the 1933 manmade famine ''Holodomor'' on the pages of Literaturna Ukraina. 

We can interpret those mysterious death in different ways but the Children of Cain tried hard to hide from the world the Holocaust which they did to Ukrainians.

In the Soviet and post Soviet times, relatively young people were dying from the natural heart attacks and mysterious strokes, in a car accidents, among them the influential people who could influence the masses. Some people understood that these deaths were not by accident but no one could explain who and how organized the killings.  But the awful truth is that - Over a period of just 18 months, on the most fertile land in Europe, 10 million people, a third of them children, were brutally and systematically starved to death!

Ukraine Remembers - The World Acknowledges!

Holodomor titles ukr

Holodomor titles ukr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqYKJIy0Ig0&feature=youtu.be

10 Million Victims: Ukraine 1933 - The Unknown Holocaust

10 Million Victims: Ukraine 1933 - The Unknown Holocaust
https://goo.gl/ZpUEnM

The photos of Stalin in his youth

interesting. according to wikipedia the father of Josif Jugashvili was a shoemaker ,

also was a linguist, the polyglot, being fluent in Georgian, Russian, Turkish and Armenian. 

https://goo.gl/euNtif

On the old pictures The Stalin- Iosif Jugashvili in his youth.

The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36

The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36


From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year. While away from Moscow, he relied on correspondence with his subordinates to receive information, watch over the work of the Politburo and the government, give orders, and express his opinions. This book publishes for the first time translations of 177 handwritten letters and coded telegrams exchanged during this period between Stalin and his most highly trusted deputy, Lazar Kaganovich.

The unique and revealing collection of letters—all previously classified top secret—provides a dramatic account of the mainsprings of Soviet policy while Stalin was consolidating his position as personal dictator. The correspondence records his positions on major internal and foreign affairs decisions and reveals his opinions about fellow members of the Politburo and other senior figures. Written during the years of agricultural collectivization, forced industrialization, famine, repression, and Soviet rearmament in the face of threats from Germany and Japan, these letters constitute an unsurpassed historical resource for all students of the Stalin regime and Soviet history.
R. W. Davies is emeritus professor and senior fellow, University of Birmingham, U.K. Oleg V. Khlevnyuk is senior researcher at the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow. E. A. Rees is professor at the European University Institute, Florence. Liudmila P. Kosheleva is senior researcher and Larisa A. Rogovaya is head of section at the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History.Steven Shabad is a former associate editor at Newsweekmagazine and a freelance translator and editor.
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Posted by Ihor Stepanovich at 9:14 AM  

...still thinking about Holodomor and today's realities of Ukrainian pensioners.

See the wikipedia, the average pension in Ukraine is 50 dollars. https://goo.gl/NA5Nrh
If you as a pensioner is not supported by the family or children then it is = Holodomor.
What I think is that there are the business elites in Ukraine who live like a country in the country.
They do not belong to the Ukrainian nation neither by the blood not by the spirit.
Even if they are pro-Western and save Ukraine as one unit-country, yet their true god is their pocket and not taking care of the most vulnerable population of the nation.
Sometimes you start to ask yourself, what is more important the territorial integrity of the country or the integrity of human lives and quality of lives of the most vulnerable people?
After all, in the active phase of the war was lost sometimes up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers a day.
And meanwhile some citizens calculating if the money will be enough to survive until tomorrow, for few others the present-day situation is earning of fabulous sums of money. Therefore Holodomor topic for the millions of vulnerable citizens is insulting  today, because they are discarded to economic genocide.
We certainly need time and I hope that the younger generation will change this country on the European model. But mentioning the Holodomor in the past I was just thinking about today's bitter realities for many people.

Holodomor

Holodomor quotes
“Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles.”
George Orwell

Communist leader speaking in the Kharkiv region in 1934:
"Famine in Ukraine was brought on to decrease the number of Ukrainians, replace the dead with people from other parts of the USSR, and thereby to kill the slightest thought of any Ukrainian independence."
- V. Danilov et al., Sovetskaia derevnia glazami OGPU_NKVD. T. 3, kn. 2. Moscow 2004. P. 572

Stalin’s letter to Lazar Kaganovich, Sept. 11, 1932
“At this point the question of Ukraine is the most important. The situation in Ukraine is very bad. If we don’t take steps now to improve the situation, we may lose Ukraine. The objective should be to transform Ukraine , in the shortest period of time, into a real fortress of the U.S.S.R.”

V. Ovsiienko (human rights activist in Kharkiv)
Sir Winston Churchill to Joseph Stalin:
“...Have the stresses of war been as bad to you personally as carrying through the policy of Collective Farms?”
Stalin:
“ - Oh no, The Collective Farm policy was a terrible struggle... Ten million (he said holding up his hands). It was fearful. Four years it lasted. It was absolutely necessary.”
“Ukrainians are an ethos, with their profound religiosity, individualism, tradition of private property, and devotion to their plots of land, were not suited to the construction of communism, and this fact was noted by the high-ranking Soviet officials.”

Norman Davies quotes.
“The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw.”

Soviet writer, Kossier Izvestiia, December 2, 1933.
“Ukrainian nationalism is our chief danger.”

The testimony of Japanese consul in Odesa.
The Japanese consul in Odesa, who made an extensive journey throughout various regions of the USSR in June 1932, wrote:
- "Ukrainian peasants, compared to the peasants in other republics, create a pitiful impression with their ragged clothing, emaciated bodies, and requests for alms. Even in large train stations, farmers and their wives and children stretch out their hands for alms and beg for bread.

H O L O D O M O R

Iosi Jugashvili (Stalin) and Lazar Moses Kaganovich correspondence
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The words of Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.( according to Wikipedia, the real name of Trotsky is Lev Davidovich Bronshtein)
"Farmers present by themselves the basic force of the national movement. Without farmers there can be no strong national movement. This is what we mean when we say that the nationalist question, is actually, the farmers’ question.”

And here is how the "Virus of Bolshevism" dealt with prosperous peasants who were called ''kulaks''.
The first category was composed of kulaks who, reputedly active counterrevolutionaries, should arrested immediately and imprisoned or, more frequently, shot without any form of trial.
The kulaks of the second category were to be subject to deportation to Siberia or the Arctic regions, after confiscation of their property.
The less prosperous and least influential kulaks formed the third category. Reputedly, they were, normally, simply expelled from collective farms, after partial confiscation of property and dispersed within the province, where they would be asked either to tend the rest land or to carry out menial jobs.
The criteria for distribution among the categories were particularly that type, which reinforced the arbitrariness of the authorities. Tke kulaks who escaped death were deprived of practically all their rights. Access to schools was denied to their children; tkey were largely refused the benefits of state services. No recourse was offered to them against the treatment, however contrary to the law, to which they were subject.

"... Duranty pointed out that, in agreement with the New York Times and the Soviet authorities,' his official dispatches always reflect the official opinion of the Soviet regime and not his own."
Interesting quote from historical materials about the Holodomor:

..The press dispatches going out from Moscow were subject to censorship, but the Moscow policy, naturally, was to convert the correspondents themselves to public relations people for the Soviet Union, when that was possible. A major success along this line was achieved in the case of the New York Times correspondent, Mr. Walter Duranty. Mr. A.J. Klieforth, of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, in his memorandum of June 4, 1931, reported a conversation he had, in the course of which:
"... Duranty pointed out that, in agreement with the New York Times and the Soviet authorities,' his official dispatches always reflect the official opinion of the Soviet regime and not his own."

The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence, 1931–36

From 1931 to 1936, Stalin vacationed at his Black Sea residence for two to three months each year. While away from Moscow, he relied on correspondence with his subordinates to receive information, watch over the work of the Politburo and the government, give orders, and express his opinions. This book publishes for the first time translations of 177 handwritten letters and coded telegrams exchanged during this period between Stalin and his most highly trusted deputy, Lazar Kaganovich.

The unique and revealing collection of letters—all previously classified top secret—provides a dramatic account of the mainsprings of Soviet policy while Stalin was consolidating his position as personal dictator. The correspondence records his positions on major internal and foreign affairs decisions and reveals his opinions about fellow members of the Politburo and other senior figures. Written during the years of agricultural collectivization, forced industrialization, famine, repression, and Soviet rearmament in the face of threats from Germany and Japan, these letters constitute an unsurpassed historical resource for all students of the Stalin regime and Soviet history.

R. W. Davies is emeritus professor and senior fellow, University of Birmingham, U.K. Oleg V. Khlevnyuk is senior researcher at the State Archive of the Russian Federation, Moscow. E. A. Rees is professor at the European University Institute, Florence. Liudmila P. Kosheleva is senior researcher and Larisa A. Rogovaya is head of section at the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History.Steven Shabad is a former associate editor at Newsweekmagazine and a freelance translator and editor.

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