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"Gli archivi del KGB e i recenti lavori degli storici
russi dimostrano
che
morirono almeno 7 milioni di Ucraini. Gli storici
ucraini parlano di 9
milioni, o anche più. Il venticinque per cento della
popolazione
ucraina
venne sterminata. Sei milioni di altri agricoltori da
un capo all'altro
dell'URSS furono fatti morire di fame o uccisi con
arma da fuoco
durante la
collettivizzazione. Stalin disse a Churchill di aver
liquidato dieci
milioni
di contadini durante gli anni 30. Si aggiungano le
esecuzioni di massa
della
Cheka in Estonia, Lettonia e Lituania; il genocidio di
3 milioni di
musulmani dell'URSS; i massacri dei Cosacchi e dei
tedeschi del Volga.
In
totale, la stima del genocidio industriale sovietico,
esclusi i 20
milioni
di morti durante la guerra, è di almeno 40 milioni di
vittime."
J.
°°°°°°°°°°
REMEMBERING UKRAINE'S UNKNOWN HOLOCAUST
LOS ANGELES - As Britain¹s socialist government
cleared the way for a
gaudy
show trial of that Great Satan of the left, Chile¹s
Gen. Augusto
Pinochet,
the 65th anniversary of this century¹s bloodiest crime
was utterly
ignored.
Leftists now baying for Pinochet¹s head don¹t want to
be reminded of
the
Unknown Holocaust
In 1932, Soviet leader Josef Stalin unleashed genocide
in Ukraine.
Stalin
determined to force Ukraine¹s millions of independent
farmers - called
kulaks¹- into collectivized Soviet agriculture, and
to crush Ukraine¹s
growing spirit of nationalism.
Ukraine¹s nightmare had begun in 1932. Faced by
resistance to
collectivization, Stalin unleashed terror upon
Ukraine. Moscow
dispatched
25,000 fanatical young party militants - earlier
versions of Mao¹s Red
Guards¹ - to force 10 million Ukrainian peasants into
collective farms.
Secret police units of OGPU began selective executions
of recalcitrant
farmers.
When Stalin¹s red guards failed to make a dent in this
immense number,
OGPU
was ordered to begin mass executions. But there were
simply not enough
Chekists (secret police) to kill so many people, so
Stalin decided to
replace bullets by a much cheaper medium of death,
mass starvation.
All seed stocks, grain, silage, and farm animals were
confiscated from
Ukraine¹s farms. Ethiopia¹s communist dictator,
Mengistu Haile Mariam,
used
the very same method in the 1970¹s to force
collectivization: the
resulting
famine cased one million deaths.
OGPU agents and Red Army troops sealed all roads and
rail lines.
Nothing
came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and
looted of food and
fuel.
Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold, and
sickness.
When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas,
Stalin sent henchman,
Lazar Kaganovitch, to destroy Ukrainian resistance.
Kaganovitch, the
Soviet
Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians
weekly. Eighty percent
of
all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian
Nikita Khruschchev
helped supervise the slaughter.
During the bitter winter of 1932-33, mass starvation
created by
Kaganovitch
and OGPU hit full force. Ukrainians ate their pets,
boots, belts, bark,
and
roots. Cannibalism became common; parents even ate
infant children.
The precise number of Ukrainians murdered by Stalin¹s
custom-made
famine and
Cheka firing squads remains unknown to this day. KGB¹s
archives, and
recent
work by Russian historians, shows at least 7 million
Ukrainians died.
Ukrainian historians put the figure at 9 million, or
higher.
Twenty-five
percent of Ukraine¹s population was exterminated.
Six million other farmers across the USSR were starved
or shot during
collectivization. Stalin told Churchill he liquidated
ten million
peasants
during the 1930¹s. Add mass executions by the Cheka in
Estonia, Latvia,
and
Lithuania; the genocide of 3 million Muslims of the
USSR; massacres of
Cossacks and Volga Germans. In total, Soviet
industrial genocide
accounted
for at least 40 million victims, not including 20
million war dead.
Kaganovitch, and many senior OGPU officers (later,
NKVD) were Jewish.
The
predominance of Jews among Bolshevik leaders, and the
frightful crimes
and
cruelty inflicted by Stalin¹s Cheka on Ukraine, the
Baltic, and Poland,
led
the victims of Red Terror to blame the Jewish people
for both communism
and
their suffering. As a direct result, during the
subsequent Nazi
occupation
of Eastern Europe, the region¹s innocent Jews became
the target of
ferocious
revenge by Ukrainians, Balts, and Poles.
While the world is by now fully aware of the
destruction of Europe¹s
Jews by
the Nazis, the story of the numerically larger
holocaust in Ukraine has
been
suppressed, or ignored. Ukraine¹s genocide occured 8-9
years before
Hitler
began the Jewish Holocaust, and was committed, unlike
Nazi crimes,
before
the world¹s gaze. But Stalin¹s murder of millions was
simply denied, or
concealed by a leftwing conspiracy of silence that
continues to this
day. In
the strange moral geometry of mass murder, only Nazis
are guilty.
Socialist luminaries like Bernard Shaw, Beatrice and
Sidney Webb, and
PM
Edouard Herriot of France, toured Ukraine during
1932-33, and
proclaimed
reports of famine were false. Shaw announced, I did
not see one
under-nourished person in Russia.¹ New York Times
correspondent Walter
Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Russian
reporting, wrote
claims of
famine were malignant propaganda.¹ Seven million
people were dying
around
them, yet these fools saw nothing. The New York Times
has never
repudiated
Duranty¹s lies.
Modern leftists do not care to be reminded their
ideological and
historical
roots are entwined with this century¹s greatest crime
- Stalin¹s mass
murder
machine - the inevitable result of enforced social
engineering and
marxist
theology. Had Germany won the war, today¹s reformed¹
Euro- Nazis would
take
the same amnesiac approach to Hitler as modern
European socialists do
to
Stalin.
Western historians delicately skirt the sordid fact
that the
governments of
Britain, the US, and Canada were fully aware of the
Ukrainian genocide
and
Stalin¹s other monstrous crimes. Yet they eagerly
welcomed him as an
ally
during World War II. Stalin, whom an adoring Roosevelt
called Uncle
Joe,¹
murdered four times more people than Adolf Hitler -
and a decade
earlier.
Roosevelt and Churchill colluded with and helped save
history¹s most
murderous regime. Time to face this ugly fact.
None of the Soviet mass murderers who committed
genocide were ever
brought
to justice. Soviet Eichmann¹ Lazar Kaganovitch died
peacefully in
Moscow a
few years ago, still wearing his Order of the Soviet
Union, and
enjoying a
generous state pension.
Posted by Eric Margolis on December 13, 1998 11:08 PM
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