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==Cover-up and "Controversy"==

==Cover-up and "Controversy"==

[[Image:Holodomorchildren.jpg|left|thumb|Starving children Poltava, 1933]]

[[Image:Holodomorchildren.jpg|left|thumb|Starving children Poltava, 1933]]

Holodomor was forcefully covered up by both the Soviet authorities and by various Soviet sympathizers in the West.  At the time the genocide was committed, the Soviet authorities tried to keep any mention of it from coming out.  Later, they kept any information from coming out from behind the Iron Curtain.  Soviet historians tried to erase all evidence of this tragedy.  They were aided by Western journalists like [[Walter Duranty]] of the ''New York Times'', who not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but also called other journalists who reported on it liars<ref>http://www.ucca.org/famine/</ref>. The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991.  Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people<ref>http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/184/0/33564/</ref>.  To this day there are still [[Stalinists]] and Russophiles who attempt to deny Holodomor was genocide, despite the fact that the governments of over 10 nations have officially recognized it as genocide.  These countries are: [[United States of America|U.S.A.]], [[Canada]], [[Estonia]], [[Argentina]], [[Australia]], [[Italy]], [[Hungary]], [[Lithuania]], [[Georgia]], [[Poland]], and Ukraine itself <ref>http://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/Holodomor/Passed_resolutions/IVForum_petition.html</ref>.  In 2003, the 70th anniversary of the famine, Soviet sympathizers in the [[United Nations|UN]] said the famine "ranks with the worst atrocities of our time" but did not use the word genocide<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4471256.stm</ref>. Russia still refuses to admit that it committed genocide.  In 2003 the Russian ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin, said "We're not going to apologise... there is nobody to apologise to.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4471256.stm</ref>"  The Russians were, however, well aware of what was really going on.  One of Stalin's lieutenants claimed in 1933 that the genocide was working.  He said it showed the peasants "who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay.<ref>http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ukra.html</ref>" In 1988, the U. S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine reported to [[Congress]], confirming that genocide was committed<ref>http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/findings.html</ref>.

Holodomor was forcefully covered up by both the Soviet authorities and by various Soviet sympathizers in the West.  At the time the genocide was committed, the Soviet authorities tried to keep any mention of it from coming out.  Later, they kept any information from coming out from behind the Iron Curtain.  Soviet historians tried to erase all evidence of this tragedy.  They were aided by Western journalists like [[Walter Duranty]] of the ''New York Times'', who not only helped conceal all evidence of Holodomor, but also called other journalists who reported on it liars<ref>http://www.ucca.org/famine/</ref>. The Soviets managed to cover this up until Ukraine’s independence in 1991.  Official Soviet documents recently declassified revealed that the genocide was indeed intended to target the Ukrainian people<ref>http://5tv.com.ua/eng/newsline/184/0/33564/</ref>.  To this day there are still [[Stalinists]] and Russophiles who attempt to deny Holodomor was genocide, despite the fact that the governments of over 10 nations have officially recognized it as genocide.  These countries are: [[United States of America|U.S.A.]], [[Canada]], [[Estonia]], [[Argentina]], [[Australia]], [[Italy]], [[Hungary]], [[Lithuania]], [[Georgia]], [[Poland]], and Ukraine itself <ref>http://www.ukrainianworldcongress.org/Holodomor/Passed_resolutions/IVForum_petition.html</ref>.  Also included is [[Pope John Paul II]].<ref>http://www.skrobach.com/ukrhol.htm</ref> In 2003, the 70th anniversary of the famine, Soviet sympathizers in the [[United Nations|UN]] said the famine "ranks with the worst atrocities of our time" but did not use the word genocide<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4471256.stm</ref>. Russia still refuses to admit that it committed genocide.  In 2003 the Russian ambassador to Ukraine, Viktor Chernomyrdin, said "We're not going to apologise... there is nobody to apologise to.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4471256.stm</ref>"  The Russians were, however, well aware of what was really going on.  One of Stalin's lieutenants claimed in 1933 that the genocide was working.  He said it showed the peasants "who is the master here. It cost millions of lives, but the collective farm system is here to stay.<ref>http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/ukra.html</ref>" In 1988, the U. S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine reported to [[Congress]], confirming that genocide was committed<ref>http://www.faminegenocide.com/resources/findings.html</ref>.

==Memorials and Remembrances==

==Memorials and Remembrances==