In short: I think the Holodomor is atrocity propaganda. It was used first by Jewish Ukrainian immigrants who came to the US in the 30s, then by the US in 1984 to get ready for the color revolution in the USSR in 1991, then it was used in uprising to the Orange revolution in Ukraine in 2004 and then it really was severely pushed up to the Maidan revolution in 2014.
Google Ngram provides a perfect view in that: (it only entered our collective mind in the last 10 years)
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c ... r_end=2019
On the US involvement in the research into the Holodomor:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Comm ... ine_Famine
The Holodomor is now a foundational myth on which the Ukraine is built. Comparable to how Israel uses the Holocaust. Not for nothing Ukraine is quite a Jewish state at this moment in time. The parallels between these 2 events are great.
Ukraine is of a crucial importance geopolitically as the bridge between the east and the west. It was in WW2, it is today. The Ukraine had the largest Jewish population of all the Soviet states in the 1970 census 1 million Jews. And while the Bolshevik revolution was a Jewish revolution it didn't turn out well for most Jews under Stalin.
In the reign of Stalin after 1924 we see a shift in his policies to minorities. Stalin's policies of rapid industrialization and forced collectivization disrupted traditional Jewish city occupations in commerce. Also Jews had to go work in farms, factories and mines. This prompted many Jews to emigrate in the late 1920s-early 1930s, over 200,000 Ukrainian Jews received permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union, mostly to Palestine under the British Mandate and to US and other Western countries. What should have become a perfect homeland for the Jews changed. In 1939, Stalin reversed Communist policy and began a cooperation with Germany that included the removal of high profile Jews from the Kremlin.
Read this with caution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_St ... tisemitism
But having a wikipedia says enough that the Jews and Stalin were no friends in the end.
Not for nothing in modern history Hitler is the #1 evil and Stalin the #2.
"The Black Deeds of the Kremlin: A White Book" (1953) - This is one of the earliest publications to "document" the famine, it was written by an Ukrainian nationalist émigrés (how the official media say it ) and was highly critical of the Soviet regime.
Some of the writers:
Semen Pidhainy, a Ukrainian historian and political activist. Pidhainy is Jewish. He was also a member of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a Ukrainian nationalist resistance movement that fought against the Soviet Union.
I.I. Sandul, a Ukrainian economist and statistician. Sandul was Jewish. He was born in a Jewish family in Ukraine and was active in the Jewish community. He was also a member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, a Jewish organization that was formed to fight against Nazism.
Victor Kravchenko, a Soviet defector who worked in the Soviet grain procurement apparatus. Kravchenko is a common Jewish surname in Eastern Europe.
Arthur Koestler, a Hungarian-British writer who witnessed the famine in Ukraine. Koestler was Jewish, though later identified more as a communist and critic of totalitarianism.
So what's happening here? Accounts written down by Jewish Ukrainian political activists.
And then we see almost nothing and in the 1980s the US take this up and revive the "Holodomor"
The book: The Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture 1931-1933 by Robert Conquest in 1983 (also Jewish) is like the serie "Holocaust" from 1978 for the Holocaust. (
The books written mostly consist of "eye witness" accounts.
“My mother used to tell me about the time she saw a woman eating her own child.” This is a quote from the book "Death and Survival in Ukraine: The Holodomor and Afterwards" by Robert S. Sullivant. Sullivant's grandmother told him this story, which she had heard from a neighbor. The woman had been driven to madness by hunger, and she killed her child and ate it.
“I saw people digging up the grass and eating it.” This is a quote from the book "The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine" by Robert Conquest. Conquest's source for this story was a Ukrainian woman who had survived the Holodomor. The woman told him that people were so hungry that they would dig up the grass and eat it, even though it would make them sick.
Children's Suffering: Witness accounts often highlight the suffering of children during the famine. Parents had to watch their children waste away from hunger, and many families lost their young ones to starvation. The sight of children begging for food or searching for scraps is a recurring theme in these accounts.“I saw people being arrested for stealing food.” The Soviet government imposed harsh penalties on anyone caught stealing food. People were arrested and sent to labor camps, where they often died.
Sounds familiar right? Holocaust survivors, Hiroshima survivors, horror stories.
The guys in charge today in the Ukraine, are of the same Ukrainian nationalist Jewish group. Many of the Ukrainian Jewish immigrants in the US got high positions. And it's not surprising we see history playing out today in the Ukraine.
full link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3PU7OD5AXo
I could add a lot more, but let's leave it at this for now. Research for yourself, it's very very fascinating.
I have seen many people debunk the mass-extermination camp holocaust, and accept the Holodomor as it fit in the frame of us fighting against communism.
I don't want to say there was no hunger and starvation (notice the similar excuses we need to make as around the holocaust), I'm no denialist. But it's not about that. Nobody remembers the German victims in WW2. Or all the people that starved in the Ukraine in the winter of 44/45. This is politics.
I'm convinced in my research this is largely a propaganda event used to gain power.