New Holodomor Resources
Voices into Action (www.voicesintoaction.ca) Voices into Action, a free online educational resource providing information on issues regarding human rights, prejudice, and hatred, has added a new chapter entitled “Exposing the Ukrainian Holodomor: How starvation was used as a political weapon”. The chapter was developed through UCC Saskatchewan’s Holodomor Awareness and Education Committee. It examines the historical events that led to the genocide called the Holodomor – literally, “murder by starvation”, a Ukrainian term for the engineered famine that killed millions of Ukrainians in 1932 – 1933 under the Soviet regime of Joseph Stalin. A timeline and artifacts detail the circumstances that caused this massive forced starvation of several million men, women, and children in central Ukraine under Stalin’s totalitarian leadership. The arguments of genocide “believers” and “deniers” are presented, together with the role of diaspora survivors in revealing the Soviet-era cover-up. (Source: Voices into Action)
The book “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on
Ukraine” by Anne
Applebaum was recently published.
A review by The
Economist calls it a
“powerful account of the famine in
Soviet Ukraine. . .
War, as Carl von Clausewitz famously put it, is the continuation of politics by other means. The politics in this case was the Sovietization of Ukraine; the means was starvation. Food supply was not mismanaged by Utopian dreamers.” It was weaponized . . . with searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to eradicate ‘backwardness’ when undertaken by a regime in a state of war with its own people.” “Bitter Harvest”, directed by George
Mendeluk, is the newly released and first major dramatic film about the
Holodomor. Based on one of the most overlooked tragedies of the 20th century, it is a powerful story of love, honour, rebellion and survival as seen through the eyes of two young lovers caught in the ravages of Joseph Stalin’s genocidal policies against Ukraine in the 1930s. (Source: www.bitterharvest.com) Additional information on Holodomor is available at www.ucc.ca/issues/holodomor/ holodomor-resources/.