Apologists for Stalin and the Soviet system to this day insist that the Holodomor cannot be called a genocide because approximately three million people died during the course of it in the Russian Federation. But they ignore the fact that...
On November 23, Ukrainians and their supporters across the world mark a day in memory of the Holodomor, Stalin’s terror famine against the peasantry in Ukraine, a crime which resulted in the deaths of more than four million people, most...
November is the month of remembrance, and this year marks the 86th commemoration of the 1932-33 Holodomor, one of the major genocides of the 20th century. On November 28, 2006, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law “On the...
Meeting in Ankara, representatives of 46 Crimean Tatar organizations said that the only way to end human rights abuses in Crimea is to end the Russian occupation, called on the international community to continue to press for that end, and...
Ukrainian officials are pleased that the United Nations has acknowledged that Russia is an occupying power in Crimea and that it has promoted demographic change there in violation of the Geneva Convention. But Ukrainian experts are...
On May 18, Crimean Tatars and their supporters around the world marked the 75th anniversary of Stalin’s deportation of their ancestors from their homeland, an action in which tens of thousands died in Central Asian exile and from which...
Two days ago, the Latvian Saeima became the first foreign parliament to adopt a resolution recognizing Soviet treatment of the Crimean Tatars as an act of genocide, an action in advance of the 75th anniversary of their deportation in 1944...
Is punishment inevitable? Commenting on the trial of Nazi criminal Adolf Eichmann (one of the organizers of the Holocaust, tried and executed in Israel in 1962), the famous philosopher Karl Jaspers wrote: “Something other than law is at...
When Stalin deported the Crimean Tatars in 1944, he loaded all of them on trains in the course of a few days and sent them to Central Asia, an action that is almost universally recognized and denounced as an act of genocide. But today,...
Moscow has made a concerted effort to present the Crimean Tatars as simply a branch of Tatars who happen to live on the Russian-occupied peninsula and thus do not have the legitimate right to a separate national self-determination, an...
– It was September (1932-Ed). I was sitting in the sleeping car of the Moscow-Kharkiv express train that was taking me to my new job. … In the daytime, the bleak, suffering land looked even more frightening than at night. At...
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