Holomodor: Why isn’t the world recognizing the deliberate starvation of 7,000,000 people as genocide?

I was asking this question myself when the subject popped into my head this morning and discovered that neither the european union, the UK or the US recognise the deleberate and systematic starvation of an estimated 7,000,000 Ukranian souls by Stalin. (some estimate as much as 10m)

Here are a couple of snippets of information to point out.

"The United States does not recognise the Holodomor as a genocide at the highest level despite the declaration by Congress. Newly released documents obtained by the editor show that the US only supported Ukraine's UN resolution regarding the Holodomor provided that any mention of genocide was removed.

Rice sent a letter of support to the Ukrainian Foreign Minister almost covertly with an instruction that no signed original was to be released"
[link to www.holodomor.org.uk]

Why isn’t the world recognizing the Holodomor
as an act of genocide?

By Oleksandr Kramarenko
[link to www.day.kiev.ua]


This article was prompted by Minister of Foreign Affairs Borys Tarasiuk’s recent appeal to the international community to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as an act of genocide. As with his previous appeals, the world did not react to this one. I think that Mr. Tarasiuk, who is an experienced diplomat, was not counting on the success of that hopeless endeavor, just as he had not expected that last year’s appeals to step up Ukraine’s integration into NATO would have any positive effect.

Vivid proof of the unpreparednesss of the minister’s measures is the fact that our own Verkhovna Rada still has not recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide. So, it was no surprise that in response to some Ukrainian parliamentarians’ appeal to the Israeli Knesset to recognize the Holodomor as an act of genocide, the Israeli parliament said it did not know anything about this genocide. This happened when Kyiv was marking the 65th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy, so our MPs must have expected the Jews, moved as they were by the hospitality of the Ukrainian establishment during the ceremonies, to reciprocate.

I think that those gentlemen from the Verkhovna Rada not only have a rather vague idea about the Holodomor, they also failed to closely follow the events in Babyn Yar. They must have missed the speech delivered by Viacheslav Kantor, the leader of the Jewish communities in Russia, who angrily rejected all attempts to identify the Holodomor with the Holocaust because, in his opinion, the famine of 1932-1993 was not genocidal and that many peoples of the former USSR had also suffered.

We have heard statements like this before, haven’t we? Another possibility is that Kantor, as a representative of such a democratic country as Russia, simply had no choice. Yet his sharp condemnation of Ukrainians who had allegedly massacred Jews in Babyn Yar is evidence that he was voicing his own view.
More: [link to www.ukemonde.com]

"On April 27, 2010, a draft Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe resolution declared the famine was caused by the "cruel and deliberate actions and policies of the Soviet regime" and was responsible for the deaths of "millions of innocent people" in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Russia.[28] Even though PACE found Stalin guilty of causing the famine, they rejected several amendments to the resolution, which proposed the Holodomor be recognized as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.[35]"

[link to en.wikipedia.org]