DISINFO: Greek communists opposed the falsification of history in Ukrainian protest
SUMMARY
Greek communists opposed the falsification of history during a protest by Ukrainians. They protested against a Ukrainian mobilisation near Athens as they considered it an attempt to falsify the history of starvation by the Soviet Union in the 1930s.
RESPONSE
This disinformation story is a direct reaction to incidents which took place in the Greek city of Mandras on 23 November 2024, when members of the Ukrainian community gathered near the Taras Sevchenko statue to commemorate Holodomor and were attacked by unknown individuals carrying communist flags, leading Ukraine’s embassy in Greece to demand an investigation.
Contrary to what this disinformation story claims, the Holodomor, or the deliberate massive starvation of Ukrainians during Stalin’s rule in the Soviet Union, is not a “falsification of history” but a well-documented fact. Despite historical evidence in this regard, the policy of Vladimir Putin’s Russia is to continue denying many of its elements as part of its strategy of rewriting history, as well as to attack international initiatives to catalogue it as genocide.
See other examples of similar disinformation narratives, such as claims that the Holodomor myth was invented by the Anglo-Saxons, that Holodomor was a story invented by a British spy, that Holodomor in Ukraine primarily affected the Russian population, or that Holodomor famine was largely caused by the West.