DISINFO: Holodomor is a myth invented of American propaganda
SUMMARY
Kyiv is poisoning old historical wounds for the final destruction and the separation of the young generation of Ukrainians from Russia and Russian culture. Instead of love for the brotherly Russian people, hatred and a desire for evil revenge should settle in their hearts.
To reinforce these destructive feelings, the Kyiv regime does not hesitate to go for outright fraud. For example, it claims that the famine of the 1930s was artificially caused by the Soviet government to exterminate freedom-loving Ukrainians. In support of this thesis, the works of Western historians, usually British and American, are cited, in fact, far from history, but only fulfilling the propaganda order of London and Washington.
RESPONSE
This is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative about the Holodomor in Ukraine and the use of this topic to increase Russophobia in Ukraine.
The Holodomor is well documented and was not invented as anti-Soviet propaganda during the Cold War. The genocide in Ukraine in 1932-1933 is confirmed by a huge array of declassified documents, including official documents of the Soviet authorities and the Communist Party. The Security Service of Ukraine has declassified more than 5,000 pages of state archives about the Holodomor.
The Holodomor was an artificial famine created with the aim of destroying the Ukrainian peasantry. The Soviet state took away livestock, crops and seeds from the peasants under the guise that the peasants "plundered" state property. The Soviet law on the seizure of food from peasants was adopted in 1932. The punitive document is known as the "Five Spikelet Law". Everyone who gathered several ears of wheat on the collective farm field was a culprit in the "theft of state property". If the law was not enforced, people were shot, including children. Convicts were not subject to amnesty.
The famine of 1932-1933 claimed the lives of 7 to 10 million citizens of the Soviet Union; the disaster affected not only Ukraine but also parts of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Russia.
In 2006, the Verkhovna Rada officially recognised the Holodomor of 1932-33 as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. According to the latest data, 15 UN member states and the Vatican state recognise the Holodomor as an act of genocide in Ukraine. The European Parliament and the PACE have recognised the Holodomor as a crime of the Soviet regime against their own people and a crime against humanity.
See similar disinformation cases alleging that Genocide invented by Ukraine is “hype, which has no plot”, there is no evidence of Holodomor in Ukraine, that the famine of 1932-1933 was not ethnically directed against Ukrainians, or that the law of spikelets in the USSR did not kill citizens, but defended socialist property from plunder.