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'''Holodomor Denial ''' is the act of stating that the [[Holodomor]], the disastrous famine of 1932-1933 in Eastern Ukraine (then known as the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]], in the [[Soviet Union]]), never took place.<ref>[http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2002/280214.shtml Famine denial The Ukrainian Weekly, July 14, 2002, No. 28, Vol. LXX]</ref><ref>''

'''Holodomor Denial ''' is the act of stating that the [[Holodomor]], the disastrous famine of 1932-1933 in Eastern Ukraine (then known as the [[Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic]], in the [[Soviet Union]]), never took place.<ref>[http://www.ukrweekly.com/Archive/2002/280214.shtml Famine denial The Ukrainian Weekly, July 14, 2002, No. 28, Vol. LXX]</ref><ref>''

Initially he Soviet government dismissed all references to the famine as anti-Soviet propaganda. Denial of the famine declined after the Communist Party lost power and the Soviet empire disintegrated'' @ [http://books.google.com/books?ei=_WZ3R9CwDZnmtQO3xeXQCg&id=c-8YAAAAIAAJ&dq=Holodomor+Denial&q=%22Denial+of+the+famine%22&pgis=1#search Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity By Dinah Shelton; Page 1055] ISBN 0028658485</ref><ref>After over half a century of denial, in January 1990 the [[Communist Party of Ukraine]] adopted a special resolution admitting that the Ukrainian Famine had indeed occurred. [http://books.google.com/books?id=5Ef8Hrx8Cd0C&pg Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts - Page 93] ISBN 0415944295</ref>  

Initially he Soviet government dismissed all references to the famine as anti-Soviet propaganda. Denial of the famine declined after the Communist Party lost power and the Soviet empire disintegrated'' @ [https://books.google.com/books?ei=_WZ3R9CwDZnmtQO3xeXQCg&id=c-8YAAAAIAAJ&dq=Holodomor+Denial&q=%22Denial+of+the+famine%22&pgis=1#search Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity By Dinah Shelton; Page 1055] ISBN 0028658485</ref><ref>After over half a century of denial, in January 1990 the [[Communist Party of Ukraine]] adopted a special resolution admitting that the Ukrainian Famine had indeed occurred. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Ef8Hrx8Cd0C&pg Century of Genocide: Critical Essays and Eyewitness Accounts - Page 93] ISBN 0415944295</ref>  

   

   

The Holodomor was denied immediately and repeatedly by Soviet authorities (starting with President [[Mikhail Kalinin]] and Foreign Minister [[Maxim Litvinov]]), and this denial continued unabated, well into the 1980s.<ref name="Conquest">[[Robert Conquest]], ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine'' [[Oxford University Press]] (1987), ISBN 0195051807, p. 308. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Bp31GmfH-6YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvest+of+sorrow&sig=ONivvVYlMPCPY0pb41NXw-AL8dE#PPA320,M1]</ref>

The Holodomor was denied immediately and repeatedly by Soviet authorities (starting with President [[Mikhail Kalinin]] and Foreign Minister [[Maxim Litvinov]]), and this denial continued unabated, well into the 1980s.<ref name="Conquest">[[Robert Conquest]], ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine'' [[Oxford University Press]] (1987), ISBN 0195051807, p. 308. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bp31GmfH-6YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvest+of+sorrow&sig=ONivvVYlMPCPY0pb41NXw-AL8dE#PPA320,M1]</ref>

The Soviet stance was supported by Soviet-friendly journalists in the [[Western world|West]], such as [[Walter Duranty]] and [[Louis Fischer]].  Today, Holodomor denial continues to exist among [[leftist]] fringe writers and pseudo-scholars. It is not supported by serious academic scholars.   

The Soviet stance was supported by Soviet-friendly journalists in the [[Western world|West]], such as [[Walter Duranty]] and [[Louis Fischer]].  Today, Holodomor denial continues to exist among [[leftist]] fringe writers and pseudo-scholars. It is not supported by serious academic scholars.   

In August 1933, [[Theodor Cardinal Innitzer]] of [[Vienna]] called for relief efforts, stating that the Ukrainian famine was claiming lives “likely. . . numbered. . . by the millions” and driving those still alive to [[infanticide]] and [[cannibalism]]. ''The New York Times'', August 20, 1933, reported Innitzer’s charge and published an official denial: “in the Soviet Union we have neither [[cannibalism|cannibals]] nor [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinals]]”. The next day, the Times added Duranty’s own denial.   

In August 1933, [[Theodor Cardinal Innitzer]] of [[Vienna]] called for relief efforts, stating that the Ukrainian famine was claiming lives “likely. . . numbered. . . by the millions” and driving those still alive to [[infanticide]] and [[cannibalism]]. ''The New York Times'', August 20, 1933, reported Innitzer’s charge and published an official denial: “in the Soviet Union we have neither [[cannibalism|cannibals]] nor [[cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinals]]”. The next day, the Times added Duranty’s own denial.   

[[United Kingdom|British]] journalist [[Malcolm Muggeridge]] characterized Duranty as "the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in 50 years of journalism."<ref>[[Robert Conquest]]. ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine'' [[Oxford University Press]] (1987), ISBN 0195051807, page 320. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Bp31GmfH-6YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvest+of+sorrow&sig=ONivvVYlMPCPY0pb41NXw-AL8dE#PPA320,M1]</ref>   

[[United Kingdom|British]] journalist [[Malcolm Muggeridge]] characterized Duranty as "the greatest liar of any journalist I have met in 50 years of journalism."<ref>[[Robert Conquest]]. ''The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine'' [[Oxford University Press]] (1987), ISBN 0195051807, page 320. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Bp31GmfH-6YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=harvest+of+sorrow&sig=ONivvVYlMPCPY0pb41NXw-AL8dE#PPA320,M1]</ref>   

Campaigns were launched in 1986 for the retraction of the Pulitzer Prize given to ''[[The New York Times]]''. Despite the fact that the [[Times]] admits that the fraudulent coverage led to it receiving the prize, they have refused to relinquish it.<ref>[http://duranty.pelech.org/duranty2003/pulitzer2003.pdf Correspondence between Markian Pelech and the Board of Pulitzer Prizes]</ref> The Times acknowledges that "some of Duranty's editors criticized his reporting as tendentious", and that "collectivization was the main cause of a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine, the Soviet [[breadbasket]], in 1932 and 1933 - two years after Duranty won his prize."<ref name="NYT"/>

Campaigns were launched in 1986 for the retraction of the Pulitzer Prize given to ''[[The New York Times]]''. Despite the fact that the [[Times]] admits that the fraudulent coverage led to it receiving the prize, they have refused to relinquish it.<ref>[http://duranty.pelech.org/duranty2003/pulitzer2003.pdf Correspondence between Markian Pelech and the Board of Pulitzer Prizes]</ref> The Times acknowledges that "some of Duranty's editors criticized his reporting as tendentious", and that "collectivization was the main cause of a famine that killed millions of people in Ukraine, the Soviet [[breadbasket]], in 1932 and 1933 - two years after Duranty won his prize."<ref name="NYT"/>

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*Tauger, Mark B., [http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500600 ''The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933''], [[Slavic Review]], Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp.&nbsp;70–89

*Tauger, Mark B., [https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2500600 ''The 1932 Harvest and the Famine of 1933''], [[Slavic Review]], Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring, 1991), pp.&nbsp;70–89

*[[James Waller|Waller, James]], ''Becoming evil: how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing'', Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 2002. ISBN 0195148681

*[[James Waller|Waller, James]], ''Becoming evil: how ordinary people commit genocide and mass killing'', Oxford: [[Oxford University Press]], 2002. ISBN 0195148681

*Crowl, James William, ''Angels in Stalin's Paradise. Western Reporters in Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1937. A case study of Louis Fisher and Walter Duranty'', [[University Press of America]], 1982. ISBN 0819121851

*Crowl, James William, ''Angels in Stalin's Paradise. Western Reporters in Soviet Russia, 1917 to 1937. A case study of Louis Fisher and Walter Duranty'', [[University Press of America]], 1982. ISBN 0819121851