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  Holodomor - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор;) was the 1932–33 famine and a major national catastrophe in Ukraine.
Of direct relevance to holodomor is the cliché moryty golodom, "to inflict death by hunger".
Holodomor is a noun for this verb phrase.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Holodomor   (549 words)

  
 Holodomor - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомор) was a famine on the territory of Soviet Ukraine in the years 1932–1933.
It was the largest national catastrophe of the Ukrainian nation in modern history, with loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary); the famine was caused by the deliberate policies of the government of the Soviet Union.
Holodomor, Causes and outcomes, Estimation of the loss of life, Elimination of Ukrainian cultural elite, Was the Holodomor genocide?, Politicization of the Holodomor, See also, Notes, References, External links, Declarations and legal acts, Books, Links and sources, Famines, Genocides, History of the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia and History of Ukraine.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Holodomor   (3512 words)

  
 The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor)
The holodomor of 1932-33 is one of the most terrifying pages in the history of the Ukrainian people.
Remembering about holodomor, we are obliged not to let the genocide repeat itself in the future, we must not allow the anti-people power, no matter what it is called, to be able to destroy people's lives.
In particular in this work there have been analyzed the basic causes of the Holodomor, the chronology of events of 1932-33, the reaction of the Soviet government and the international community to the situation in Ukraine, Kuban and the northern Caucuses, and also there are given the major conclusions regarding the consequences of the Holodomor.
www.artukraine.com /famineart/ukraine_3000_2.htm   (1434 words)

  
 Holodomor info here at en.89-of-100.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
While the famine in Ukraine was a gob of a wider famine that with damaged supplementary jungles of the USSR, the expression Holodomor is respectively altered to the gos that took peg in territories populated by the ethnic Ukrainians.
As such, the Holodomor is recurrently referred to as the Ukrainian Genocide,[2] [3] [4] [5] or requisite the Ukrainian Holocaust, implying that the Holodomor was engineered by the Soviets to respectively ground zero the Ukrainian civil in enactment to quash the Ukrainian nation as a political making & civil entity.
The Ukrainian communities are recurrently criticized for using the expression Holodomor, or recurrently Ukrainian Genocide, or requisite Ukrainian Holocaust, to due the larger-scale waterloo of collectivization as their own,personal urban terror-famine, thus exploiting it for political purposes.
en.89-of-100.info /Holodomor   (4676 words)

  
 Holodomor xmpg.org   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Holodomor () was a famine on the territory of Soviet Ukraine in the years 1932 1933.
It was the largest national catastrophe of the Ukrainians in modern history, with loss of human life in the range of millions (estimates vary); the famine was caused by the deliberate policies of the government of the Soviet Union.
As such, the Holodomor is sometimes referred to as the Ukrainian Genocide, or even the Ukrainian Holocaust, implying that the Holodomor was engineered by the Soviets to specifically target the Ukrainian people in order to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a political factor and social entity,http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/bilinsky.
xmpg.org /en/Holodomor   (3414 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Holodomor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Holodomor memorial in Kyiv should be our holy place
Statement by Ukraine's envoy to the U.N. regarding the Holocaust and the Holodomor
Holodomor exhibit is presented at the United Nations
www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Holodomor   (164 words)

  
 Why did Stalin exterminate the Ukrainians?
On Nov. 10, 2003, a joint statement from 36 nations was published in connection with the 70th anniversary of the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-33, which was officially adopted during the 58th session of the UN General Assembly.
The situation with the Holodomor or the problem of the OUN and UPA are different because they are part of the life experiences of the current generation of Ukrainian citizens, who were participants in those events, or the children of these people.
Most of those who think that the Holodomor was an act of genocide have a shallow understanding of the political and legal essence of "genocide." They are certain that if the government's actions cause mass deaths among the population, they are always an act of genocide.
www.uottawa.ca /academic/grad-etudesup/ukr/ukraine_list/ukl369_4.html   (13185 words)

  
 Special commemorative edition of journal dedicated to Holodomor (11/16/03)
Holodomor" by Peter Borisow, president of the Hollywood Trident Foundation and the Genocide Awareness Foundation, focuses on the fact that it is necessary to correct the erroneous perception that Holodomor (literally death by forced starvation) was a weather-generated event, as is the common public perception gained through the use of the term "famine."
Her article explains that, because of the political oppression pervasive in the USSR, there was a dearth of artistic images dealing with the Holodomor until the recently achieved freedom of expression permitted the subject to be artistically addressed.
Copies of "Holodomor: The Ukrainian Genocide, 1932-1933," may be ordered from the publisher for $5, plus $2 (U.S.) postage ($3 in Canada and $4 foreign).
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2003/460314.shtml   (540 words)

  
 HOLODOMOR WEBSITE
To uncover the cause of the Ukrainian Holodomor (famine-genocide) of 1932-1933 through studies of the historical events, social acts, national traits, which were sources of the tragedy.
To establish a network of Ukrainian scholars directed towards the discovery of the origins of Holodomor -- its political, social and cultural roots, its immediate causes and consequences.
It is assumed that the Ukrainian famine could not have taken place in a society governed by the consent of its people, who share a national spiritual unity and enjoy basic civil rights and freedoms.
www.holodomor.org   (403 words)

  
 Holodomor - Famine - Genocide in Ukraine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Because the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide was carried out behind the Iron Curtain, it is one of the least known crimes against humanity committed by the Stalinist government of the former Soviet Union.
Its magnitude is comparable to the Jewish Holocaust, yet due to the isolation of the Soviet Union from the world for over 70 years and the intricate web of lies manufactured by Soviet historians, the memory of this tragedy was suppressed and the evidence concealed.
This Soviet policy of terror was a political move aimed at crushing the peasants and landowners - those who most fervently resisted collectivization and supported the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
ucca.org /famine   (944 words)

  
 Ukrainian Museum NYC Newsletter - BRAMA
The literal definition of the word HOLODOMOR is "murder by hunger." Seven to ten million men, women and children in Ukraine were starved to death through an artificially created famine by the Soviet government in order to achieve a political purpose.
The HOLODOMOR exhibition was organized by The Ukrainian Museum in New York City at the request of the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations.
The central focus of the exhibit is the devastation wrought by the Famine in terms of human despair, suffering and painful death.
www.ukrainianmuseum.org /news_0311UNFamineExhibit.html   (1481 words)

  
 News
In equating the Ukrainian Holodomor of 1932-33 with genocide, scholars
Holodomor survivors sensed the authorities' intent to punish "saboteurs"
Holodomor of 1933 as an act of genocide is raised again at the UN assembly.
www.lucorg.com /lucw/news.php?id=1146   (7358 words)

  
 Lobbying by diaspora changes Holodomor stamp's design (11/30/03)
The stamp was intended to commemorate the genocidal famine referred to as the "Holodomor" (death torture by forced starvation).
Such a grouping it was felt would dilute the real reason for issuing the stamp: to concretely recognize the immensity of the Holodomor of the 1930s that was imposed on Ukraine - a tragedy that to this day continues to be glossed over by many Soviet-era holdovers still in government positions.
In an otherwise excellent 1986 documentary on the Holodomor, "Harvest of Despair," the filmmakers had erroneously used photos from a Russian famine.
www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2003/480324.shtml   (866 words)

  
 hborisowspeech
Holodomor was a deliberate and relentless plague of torture and terror resulting in death by starvation.
Then came the realization that there was not just one Holodomor, but three.
The Holodomor was not a stand alone effort to collectivize farms in Ukraine.
www.ukrainiangenocide.com /hborisowspeech.html   (1655 words)

  
 RISU /English /News /UOC-KP Orthodox Head and President Pray for Holodomor (Famine) Victims:
In an address to those present, Patriarch Filaret said, among other things: “We lived in a time when a great crime like the Holodomor, which took the lives of millions of Ukrainians, was kept in silence.
According to a report by the press service of the UOC–KP, the last time the victims of the Holodomor were commemorated with participation from the highest Ukrainian government officials was in 1993, when the 60th anniversary of the tragedy was marked with participation of then-President Leonid Kravchuk.
“Holodomor” may be translated from Ukrainian as “deliberate famine.” The term is used by those who consider that this was an artificial famine, a deliberate genocide committed as part of Joseph Stalin's collectivization program under the Soviet Union.
www.risu.org.ua /eng/news/article;5023   (387 words)

  
 I was chosen by your dead - Legacy of the Famine: Ukraine as a postgenocidal society.
This year, marking the seventieth anniversary of the tragedy, the Ukrainian public remembers millions of fellow citizens who fell prey to a premeditated genocidal policy by Stalin's Kremlin and carried out by the Communist leadership of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
The parliamentary hearings are intended to spur international bodies, primarily the United Nations, to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide.
James Mace was executive director of the US commission that collected evidence and eyewitness accounts from survivors, who survived the Golgotha of Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.
www.ukemonde.com /genocide/jmace.htm   (1664 words)

  
 Online Petition - The British Government should recognise the 1933 Ukrainian famine (Holodomor) as genocide
The Ukrainian Government has named this tragedy - the Holodomor - to acknowledge that it represented deliberate starvation and genocide of the Ukrainian people.
We, the undersigned, urge Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to mark and recognise the 72nd anniversary (and subsequent anniversaries) of the Soviet-induced famine known as Holodomor in Ukraine.
We urge the UK to recognise officially that in 1932-33 the confiscation by Soviet authorities of grain harvested in Ukraine resulted in the deliberate death by starvation of some seven million Ukrainians which can therefore be classed as genocide.
www.gopetition.com /region/237/7593.html   (363 words)

  
 Holodomor Memorial Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
In the winter of 1932-1933, the Soviet government of Joseph Stalin engineered this deliberate and systemic starvation of the Ukrainian rural population to break their spirit of independence, to force them to forfeit their farms, and to murder them by merciless starvation.
To mark the 70th anniversary of the HOLODOMOR, the Tidewater Ukrainian Cultural Association held a commemoration on November 21, 2003, with a Memorial Program and Holy Requiem Liturgy.
We have a moral obligation to ensure that their horrific deaths are not forgotten, and that their sacrifices are remembered.
www.thetuca.org /holodomor.htm   (384 words)

  
 HOLOCAUST AND HOLODOMOR
A particularly relevant parallel to the Nazi holocaust is the Ukrainian holodomor of 1932-33, a state-created famine—not a crop failure—that killed an estimated five million people in the Ukraine, one million in the Caucasus, and one million elsewhere after the Soviet state confiscated the harvest at gunpoint.
Some Ukrainian accounts, and that of Muggeridge, who covered the holodomor for the Manchester Guardian, take the trouble to say that this mass starvation was imposed in very substantial part by Jews.
Jews among the Bolsheviks who imposed the holodomor would have relished settling scores after the 40 years of bloody pogroms that followed Czar Alexander II’s assassination in 1881—especially the still-recent massacre of 50,000 to 100,000 Jews, mostly in the Ukraine, during the Russian civil war of 1918-21.
desip.igc.org /HolocaustAndHolodomor.html   (2474 words)

  
 President Viktor Yushchenko thanks Americans for Holodomor recognition
I am wholeheartedly grateful to the participants of the ceremony to honor the victims of Holodomor of 1932-33 for their concern and sympathy that unite us in this time of sorrow.
Today we are bowing our heads before the deep tragedy of a loss of loved ones, remembering both the tyranny of the totalitarian system and the historic lie of concealing the crimes against humankind and humanity.
In Ukraine, honoring the fallen and supporting those affected by Holodomors, as well as study of hidden for decades pages of the Ukrainian history, are matters of high priority for the state policy.
brama.com /news/press/2005/11/051123presidentyushchenko_holodomor.html   (575 words)

  
 Informat.io on Holodomor
, or even the Ukrainian Holocaust, implying that the Holodomor was engineered by the Soviets to specifically target the Ukrainian people in order to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a political factor and social entity,[6].
The USSR exported 1.70 million tons of grain in 1932 and 1.84 million tons in 1933 ([16]), almost a quarter of a ton in each year per each dead in the Holodomor.
According to the US Government Commission on the Ukrainian Famine ([25]) which investigated over 200 witnesses as well as documented data, the Holodomor was caused by the seizure of the 1932 crop by the Soviet authorities.
www.quaest.io /?title=holodomor   (3551 words)

  
 Ukraine Wants Europe to Condem Great FAMINE :: recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide of Ukrainians   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Great FAMINE of the 1930's is known as the Holodomor in Ukrainian and it was perpetrated by Stalin, the Russians, and the Communists with the help of other parties who hated Ukrainians.
Members of the Ukrainian parliament, representing Ukraine at the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, propose to condemn Holodomor (the Great Famine in Ukraine of 1932-33) as a crime of the communist regime.
In particular, the amendment proposes to add to the recommendations to CE Committee of Ministers a provision, calling on member countries to recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide against the Ukrainian nation.
www.politicalforum.com /viewtopic.php?t=14135   (1004 words)

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