The shamefully under-reported and under-studied Ukrainian genocide of 1933.....

[calitennis127]

It is truly sad that in the United States and the Western world generally, this sordid affair is as under-discussed and under-analyzed as it is. It truly was one of the most awful moments in human history. But it has been brushed aside, even after the splendid work of Robert Conquest (Hoover Institution at Stanford) exposed it beyond a shadow of a doubt.

Of course, the media and education establishments have to suppress the truth about this, because it makes so many of their historical and political ideas look silly.

This video is not for the faint of heart. So I recommend approaching it only if you are ready for something morbid and disturbing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afVdnbMd6gA

 

[nehmeth]

"The Ukraine's only crime was that they would not adapt to wearing chains."

Powerful documentary. The scale on which the genocide was carried out is mind boggling.

Thank you for sharing this Cali.

 

[calitennis127]

"The Ukraine's only crime was that they would not adapt to wearing chains."

Powerful documentary. The scale on which the genocide was carried out is mind boggling.

Thank you for sharing this Cali.

You're welcome, nehmeth. I think this is a video that all fair-minded people find to be very powerful, whatever their personal views.

I first found about this a few years ago reading some reviews of Robert Conquest's books on the Soviet Union's crimes. Conquest is one of the greatest scholars America has ever produced, but he gets far too little credit or attention.

Richard Nixon wiretapped his political opponents (something everyone in the 60s and 70s did - LBJ wiretapped Martin Luther King, for instance), and we hear more about that petty little incident as a crime against humanity than up to 15 million people being "liquidated" in 4 years in the Ukraine.

Not only that - but the New York Times to this day is ashamed of their very own Walter Duranty's deliberate cover-up of the atrocities, and they don't want anyone bringing that embarrassing subject up.

 

[britbox]

History is cruel... and Stalin was arguably the cruelest and most brutal dictator in modern history. Made Hitler look like a choir boy.

 

[calitennis127]

History is cruel... and Stalin was arguably the cruelest and most brutal dictator in modern history. Made Hitler look like a choir boy.

Yes - unfortunately a reality that is little acknowledged today.

Conquest's first famous book about the Soviet Union did not even concern this genocide. It was actually about Stalin's political purges of the mid-1930's, which made the Spanish Inquisition or New England witch hunts seem like bullies throwing snowballs at the nerdy kids on the playground.

 

[nehmeth]

Not only that - but the New York Times to this day is ashamed of their very own Walter Duranty's deliberate cover-up of the atrocities, and they don't want anyone bringing that embarrassing subject up.

That part of the video hit me too. Duranty knowingly lied about what was going and and used the respected tradition of the New York Times to legitimize his lies.

 

[calitennis127]

And here is a question to consider - what lessons can we draw from this event?

Thoughts?