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| As of March 2008, several governments[18] have recognized the actions of the Soviet government as an act of genocide. | Legal recognition | 27/11/10 1:54:01 |
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| The word "Holodomor" literally translated from Ukrainian means "death by hunger," or "to kill by hunger, to starve to death."[ | Etymology | 27/11/10 1:55:56 |
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| The special nature of famine in Ukraine | From November 18, 1932 peasants from Ukraine were required to return extra grain they had previously earned for meeting their targets. | 27/11/10 1:59:13 |
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| Main article: Causes of the Holodomor | Causes | 27/11/10 2:01:01 |
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| On August 7, 1932 a law came into force that stipulated that all food was state property and that mere possession of food was evidence of a crime. | Among the most enthusiastic enforcers of the law were urban members of youth organizations, educated under the Soviet system, who fanned out into the countryside in order to prevent the "theft" of state property. | 27/11/10 2:02:36 |
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| Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper have issued public statements giving the death toll at about 10 million.[59][60] This figure includes unborn children, estimated at more than 6 million.[ | Death toll | 27/11/10 2:04:09 |
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| Additional variations were due to some estimates including the death toll from political repression: e.g., those who died in the Gulag labor camps, while others estimated only those who starved to death. | The estimates prior to the opening of former Soviet archives also varied widely but the range was narrower: for example, 2.5 million (Volodymyr Kubiyovych),[63] 4.8 million (Vasyl Hryshko)[63] and 5 million (Robert Conquest).[65] | 27/11/10 2:07:57 |
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| One modern calculation that uses demographic data, including that recently available from Soviet archives, narrows the losses to about 3.2 million or, allowing for the lack of precise data, 3 million to 3.5 million.[63][66][67] | According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the overall number of Ukrainians who died from 1932-1933 famine is estimated as about four to five million out of six to eight million people who died in the Soviet Union as a whole.[1 | 27/11/10 2:09:50 |
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| Denial of Holodomor is the assertion that the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine did not occur.[96][97][98][99] This denial and suppression was made in official Soviet propaganda and was supported by some Western journalists and intellectuals.[ | Soviet denial | 27/11/10 2:13:21 |
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| In modern politics | One of the interpretations of The Running Man painting by Kazimir Malevich, also known as Peasant Between a Cross and a Sword, is the artist's indictment of the Great Famine.[ | 27/11/10 2:15:21 |
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| In 2007, President Viktor Yushchenko declared he wants "a new law criminalising Holodomor denial | On November 10, 2003 at the United Nations twenty-five countries including Russia, Ukraine and United States signed a joint statement on the seventieth anniversary of the Holodomor with the following preamble: | 27/11/10 2:19:57 |
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| In the former Soviet Union millions of men, women and children fell victims to the cruel actions and policies of the totalitarian regime. The Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor), which took from 7 million to 10 million innocent lives and became a national tragedy for the Ukrainian people. In this regard we note activities in observance of the seventieth anniversary of this Famine, in particular organized by the Government of Ukraine. | Honouring the seventieth anniversary of the Ukrainian tragedy, we also commemorate the memory of millions of Russians, Kazakhs and representatives of other nationalities who died of starvation in the Volga River region, Northern Caucasus, Kazakhstan | 27/11/10 2:22:40 |
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| and in other parts of the former Soviet Union, as a result of civil war and forced collectivization, leaving deep scars in the consciousness of future generations.[ (NT) | joint statement on the seventieth anniversary of the Holodomor | 27/11/10 2:24:29 |
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