Posted on 11/23/2018 11:57:49 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Oksana Ostapenko was 12 years old and facing death from hunger when a stranger saved her life by taking the girl into his family and sharing the last of their food.
Today, aged 97, the Ukrainian's voice trembles when she recalls the terrible famine that hit her country in the 1930s due to policies enforced by Joseph Stalin's police.
"They came and took away all our grain..."
The death toll of the famine - known as the "Holodomor" in Ukrainian - remains debated among historians. But Kiev authorities estimate the number of those who died at around four million, or 13 per cent of the total population at the time.
Kiev has recognised this as a genocide against the Ukrainian people by Stalin's regime, specifically aimed at eradicating the country's peasantry. More than 15 countries recognise that view of events.
Now dozens of stories like Ostapenko's have been gathered in a book published to coincide with the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor. The national day of remembrance of the famine is on Saturday.
The book, "Humanity in an Inhumane Time", focuses on the people who saved others from dying of hunger.
Ostapenko's saviour was Yegor Kryvenko, whose work as a mechanic at a local mill allowed him to secure some extra flour for his family.
"I just met kind people," Ostapenko said of the father-of-two who offered to take her in when her own mother could no longer support her.
"He divided everything that was stored equally, down to the last gram," she said.
"Even in the most dire conditions there were those who had the courage to resist," Tylischak said.
"They saved lives. One, several or the whole community - depending on what opportunities they had," said Viktoriya Yaremenko, a historian who also worked on the book.
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Horrors are the sweet spot of where socialism ultimately leads to. Even the self proclaimed kind and tolerant Leftist in the West are at present riddled with talk of doing something about us Deplorables.
The Dems can’t wait. They’re rubbing their hands with glee...
Ping.
Stalin deliberately set out to perform genocide on the Ukrainian people, through starvation, and got away with it.
His ally, Hitler, then decided that he could get away with genocide too.
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Good idea - special ‘deals’ for progressives...
Jewish leaders hate the word Holodomer because I believe Jews made up 60% of the Russia State. Later many people died. Worshipping the State has bad consequences. We all want to be seen as spotless victims. We all want our narriative to be believed.
Wait until our U.S deep state gets unleashed.
Or a “Power Walk’’ all the way from Sunny Honduras to the US border.
But, first, they came and took away all the firearms...
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“They came and took away all our grain...”
And....Liberal journalists in the West helped him.
Written and directed by Edvīns Šnore (2008), this is the unsanitized story of Soviet Communism and Soviet-German collaboration prior to 1941. The film features interviews with Western and Russian historians including Norman Davies and Boris Sokolov, Russian writer Viktor Suvorov, Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky, members of the European Parliament and participants, as well as survivors of the rampaging, bloodlusted Soviet terror machine. "Only by understanding the genocides of the past, can we hope to prevent others from occurring in our lifetime." - The Soviet Story
It seems that Youtube and others are censoring this video. I wonder why? /s
His ally, Hitler, then decided that he could get away with genocide too.
And beginning in 1943, the communist henchmen of FDR started the same genocidal programs in the USA, all the way up to December 1941.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941 changed their plans. From the satanic Democrat point of view, war could eliminate excess population just as well as starvation.
There was another famine in Kazakhstan in 1932, where 1.5 million died Kazakhs died from collectivizatation and forced settlement of nomads - around 38% of the Kazakh, more in percentage terms than the Ukrainians.
They were reduced to a minority in their homeland - although due to migration and different birthrates they again outnumber ethnic Russians there.
Isn’t it strange that at the time we allied with the USSR in WWII, the Soviet regime had already killed a hundred times as many people as the Nazis had? 5-6 million, compared to tens of thousands?
Right. Someone -— was it Solzhenitsyn? -—remarked that, just 20 years earlier, the Armenian Genocide proved that you don’t need gas chambers, tanks, crematoria etc. to commit genocide. You just need a few soldiers willing to make people march into the wilderness without food or water until they dropped. That -— and an unarmed populace.
I hated the Ukrainians for years due to them siding with the Nazis in WWII. I did further reading and found out why they did. Their choice was to support the Germans and they might live or get starved to death by Stalin. Gives one a better appreciation of our country that we’ll never be faced with any decision like that, unless we let the the goofy socialists take over everything important. I honestly don’t know what I would have done if I were a Ukrainian at that time.
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