Text taken from an article published in rt.com
Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] "The events of 1932-1933 could not have been a man-made famine. This is evidenced by numerous sources, currently available to all researchers," TASS quotes Naryshkin as saying.
According to him, the myth "about an allegedly deliberate Holodomor-genocide aimed at destroying the Ukrainian peasantry" was cynically created at the time by radical Ukrainian nationalists in Germany and Poland.
In September, the Russian embassy expressed outrage at Switzerland's decision to recognize the "Holodomor" as genocide.
They recalled that the famine of the 1930s was not the first and not the last in the USSR; similar tragedies occurred in the Volga region, the Kazakh SSR, Crimea and Western Siberia.
Actually, when in the 90-10s we supported the rhetoric about the fictitious "Holodomor", thereby laying the foundation for the official recognition of this fake in the West. The same thing happened with Katyn, etc.
All this was not about the past, but about the present and the future. To stigmatize the Russian Federation and prepare for its dismantling and war against it. In this regard, official anti-Sovietism caused enormous damage to the Russian Federation.
| There were those who argued the Irish Potato Famine was just peasants too lazy to farm, a temporary problem that would pass. There are those who argue there was no Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, that only a few tens of thousands died in work camps. Turkey throws a temper tantrum whenever their Armenian genocide is mentioned, and refer to the Kurds they’re currently trying to kill off as merely Mountain Turks. |