Why did Nikita Khrushchev Give Crimea to Ukraine?

Very recommendable! However, after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for territorial integrity, which Putin the Terrible then violated by his invasion.

Ukraine and the Holodomor after 91 years

Now that the Russo-Ukrainian War is going on for almost two years, it is important to remind anyone of the Holodomor. See also my blog post here.

The Ukrainian people suffered mass murder under Stalin and now they suffer again under Putin the Terrible!

Eurovision: Ukrainian refugees bring their history to life at Liverpool festival

Recommendable! Remember the Holodomor!

Ukrainian Famine Hero Who Was Killed for Reporting the Truth: Gareth Jones

Recommendable! Investigative journalism at its best! A profile in courage!

The Russo-Ukrainian war has a terrible precedent: Holodomor! (I blogged about it a few times, please click on the label below)

"... In the early 1930s, Jones undertook two fact-finding missions to Stalin’s Soviet Union. He published articles in major Western newspapers about his observations. Before a third visit in March 1933, he picked up credible information that conditions in Ukraine were horrific. He resolved to find out for himself and scheduled a third mission for March 1933.

Travel to Ukraine was forbidden, but that didn’t prevent Jones from eluding Soviet authorities and making his way there anyway. What he saw and heard horrified him. Back in Berlin, he reported to the world:

I walked along through villages and twelve collective farms. Everywhere was the cry, “There is no bread. We are dying.”

Jones had walked into one of Soviet communism’s most heinous crimes: the Holodomor of 1932-33. Known also as the Terror-Famine and the Ukrainian Genocide, it was an intentional, man-made, planned-from-the-top catastrophe that claimed the lives of between four and ten million people. It was engineered by Joseph Stalin to crush Ukrainian resistance to forced collectivization of agriculture. ..."

Ukrainian Famine Hero Who Was Killed for Reporting the Truth: Gareth Jones - El American

German parliament labels 1930s Ukraine famine as genocide committed by Stalin

Good news! What took so long!!!!

Especially post WWII Germany should have been interested to let the world know that Stalin was as genocidal as Hitler!

Let the international war crimes tribunal against Putin the Terrible and his accomplices begin immediately, preferably in Nuremberg, Germany! But the West allied with Stalin to defeat Hitler!

P.S. I have blogged here on the Holodmor before just click on the tag below.

"Germany’s parliament on Wednesday approved a resolution recognizing as genocide Ukraine’s 1930s “Holodomor,” a famine believed to have killed more than 3 million Ukrainians under the repressive rule of Soviet leader Josef Stalin. ..."

German parliament labels 1930s Ukraine famine as genocide | AP News

Memories of Ukraine’s Great Famine fuel resentment of Russia

Recommendable! Stalin was a mass murderer like Hitler! Remember the Holodomor (here, here), the Great Famine of the 1930s, when Ukrainian farmers were forced into collectivization!

The Holocaust The New York Times Ignored

Very recommendable! This is about the Holodomor! Stalin probably killed in the Holodomor several million more people than Hitler killed Jews! This is about the huge scandal of the New York times and its then Moscow bureau chief Walter Duranty, who covered up the genocide! Apparently, the Pulitzer Prize for Walter Duranty has still not been revoked!

Kudos to Gareth Jones!

P.S. you may want to discount the short, but highly foolish positive remarks about Julian Assange and that other reckless traitor Edward Snowden.

Holodomor After 80 Years

Stalin’s Holocaust

What did we learn in school about it? How much do we know about the Holocaust?

Stalin won World War II. Was Stalin too powerful to be indicted at the Nuremberg Trials?

If you are interested in Stalin’s background before he became Stalin see my blog post here.

New Holodomor Movie And YouTube Documentary

Here is the movie: http://www.holodomorthemovie.com

Here is the YouTube documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lyKgeg6qwY

A View Brief Observations

I will not go here into any gory details of this genocide.

1) Role of Journalists

There were journalists who reported the truth and others who flatly denied it, e.g. Malcolm Muggeridge and Walter Duranty. Latter journalist has been considered a fellow traveler of Stalin.

The other, early reporter on the Holodomor was Gareth Jones. “In November 2008, Jones and fellow Holodomor journalist Malcolm Muggeridge were posthumously awarded the Ukrainian Order of Merit at a ceremony in Westminster Central Hall, ... on behalf of the President of Ukraine in reward for their exceptional services to the country and its people.” Here is a BBC piece and documentary on Gareth Jones. He appears to be quite an unusual journalist who was killed at the young age of 29 in Japanese occupied Manchuria. BBC reports “However our investigations have shown that the Chinese contact who loaned Jones and Muller [a German journalist travelling with Jones] a car to travel to Mongolia was definitely an NKVD agent [predecessor of KGB], and there's strong evidence to suggest that Muller might also have been.”

2) Appeasement And Looking The Other Way By The West

Despite the Great Depression could the West have done more to help the starving population or condemn Stalin?

3) Totalitarian Regime And Cover-Up

According to what I remember from the above mentioned YouTube documentary, Stalin’s regime managed to successfully deny the famine and cover up any suspicion of a famine by even selling extra large amounts of grain on the London commodity exchange.

Because the Soviet Union and China were closed, totalitarian dictatorships we know so little about the horrendous atrocities committed by Stalin or Mao.

4) Butcher Of The Ukraine

Not only Hitler had his henchmen, so did Stalin. One of them was little known Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich.

He died in 1991 at 97 in Moscow. He was never indicted.

5) Like The Holocaust, There Are Ardent Deniers

Except that these deniers appear to be lesser known and they are leftists. How come?

“An example of a late-era Holodomor objector is Canadian trade union activist and journalist Douglas Tottle, author of Fraud, Famine and Fascism: The Ukrainian Genocide Myth from Hitler to Harvard[99] (published by Moscow-based Communist publisher Progress Publishers in 1987). ” (source)