WHY UKRAINE INSISTS ON THE FACT OF GENOCIDE?
In 1932-1933 an unprecedented famine struck Ukraine – a country, which was previously known as the “Breadbasket of Europe”. Unlike in numerous cases of famines in European history, caused by natural disasters, bad harvest, or consequences of wars, Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 was an artificial measure, undertaken by the regime of Joseph Stalin within the implementation of the Soviet project. This policy implied practical elimination of national ideas and identities that could have impeded the creation of the Soviet state on the vast territories of many nations, which had been earlier seized by Russian empire and failed to maintain their independence in the struggle with the Bolsheviks – the virtual successors of tsarist imperialism. Ukraine, which after long sanguinary battles for the statehood was captured by Bolsheviks and joined the Soviet Union as Ukrainian Socialistic Soviet Republic in 1922, still remained a country with strong national traditions and European social model. The
