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FAMINE-GENOCIDE in SOVIET UKRAINE 1933

  • Seven million Ukrainians were starved to death.

  • The famine was artificially induced by the Soviet regime.

  • It was an act of genocide designed to undermine the social basis of Ukrainian national resistance.

  • At the height of the Famine, Ukrainian villagers were dying at the rate of
                    25,000 per day,
                    1,000 per hour,
                    17 per minute.

  • At the same time the Soviet regime was dumping 1.7 million tons of grain on Western markets.

 


 

 

CONTENTS

  1. Map of Europe
  2. United Nations Convention on Genocide
  3. President of Ukraine, Leonid Kuchma's Decree
  4. Statement by Mr. Yel'chenko, Ambassador to UN
  5. House of Commons Debates
  6. Findings of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine
  7. US Congress and Senate
  8. Genocide in Ukraine 1933
  9. The Great Famine 65 Years Later
  10. The Causes and the Consequences of Famines in Soviet Ukraine
  11. Resolution of the Council of People's Commissars
  12. British Diplomatic Reports on the Ukrainian Famine
  13. Profiles in Courage: Survivors of the 1933 Famine residing in Toronto
  14. Jewish Witnesses on the Ukrainian Famine
  15. Chicago American - page 1
  16. Chicago American - page 2
  17. Quotes about the 1933 Famine
  18. Prime Minister Jean Chretién visit to Kyiv, Ukraine
  19. Selected Comments from Interviews
  20. Facts about the 1933 Famine
  21. Famine Ukraine Bibliography
  22. Famine Resources on the Internet
  23. Ukrainian Famine in the Genocide Museum

 

     Editors: Lesya Jones, Lesia Korobaylo

 

             

 

 

Acknowledgements:

Special thanks to Andrew Gregorovich - President, Ukrainian Librarians Association of Canada, Senior Researcher, Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre, Film Co-ordinator for the upcoming documentary Between Hitler and Stalin: Ukraine in World War II - for consultation and expert advice.

Also to Ukrainian Canadian Congress - Montreal Branch Information and Anti-Defamation Committee Montreal, 1998, for their co-operation.

A heartfelt thanks to famine survivor Anges Starostenko for financally supporting this publication.

 

Toronto
(C) Ukrainian Canadian Congress and
Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Centre
1999

 


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