With the first ever Ukrainian Famine and Genocide Memorial Day almost here (Nov 22) it is nice to see the media taking a stab at the history behind it and the truth that has been buried for so long:In 1932 and 1933 in Ukraine, Soviet ruler Joseph Stalin instituted a famine that would kill seven to 10 million people in a bid to quash an independence movement.

Yesterday, in a downtown Montreal church, a choir sang tribute to the victims of the genocide, known to Ukrainians as “Holodomor,” or “death inflicted by starvation.” [...]

Stalin dramatically increased the Soviet Union’s grain procurement quota from Ukraine in 1932 with the purpose of causing shortages. Military troops and secret police used brutal force against peasants who tried to hide grain. Peasants were forbidden to travel in search of food.

“When I awoke before the dawn, I heard my sons weep and cry for bread,” Eugene Czolij, a Montrealer who was elected president of the Ukrainian World Congress this summer, told the crowd yesterday, reading a passage from Dante’s Inferno.

“Stalin used bread as a weapon of mass destruction,” he said. Czolij noted that three million children were among the victims of the genocide.

Kuryliw said her mother, who was 10 years old at the time, still talks about seeing a starving boy beaten to death in a wheat field by the head of the collective farm where she worked for stealing a cucumber.

“One of the reasons I went into history was because of the stories I heard about my father and my mother,” she said, noting the Holodomor was largely covered up for decades.

Now 63, she said: “We were always poor, but our table was never empty,” Kuryliw said.

“I was brought up to cherish every morsel of food.” (Montreal Gazette)

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And if you see someone wearing a hammer and sickle kick their ass.

Now if we have one of these for every group of people who were genocided would we run out of days in the year?

What about the meanie Normans and what they did to the Saxons who provided my name and the shield on the right? Not many survived eh.

Also Canada interned Ukranians during WWI when will the get the money the Chinese, Aboriginals and everyone else got? Oh wait they were white so that’s ok in trudeaupia.