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By Liudmyla Humeniuk
The Day, Kyiv, Ukraine
November 24, 1998
These days candles are being lit in churches in memory of the millions of
innocent victims of the Holodomor, the Great Manmade Famine of 1932-33,
the world over.
Truth about this terrible genocide tortuously made its way into world
consciousness. But sixty-five years later our compatriots abroad commemorate
it, and we wince.
Why were the facts of repression in Ukraine so stubbornly denied? Why was it
here that the heaviest weight of Stalinist terror was brought to bear?
Shall we be able to penetrate the sea of ignorance, total silence,
hypocrisy -
and remember?
American historian James Mace, who is not Ukrainian, agreed to comment on
some of the facts of Ukrainian history, which were for many years a
forbidden theme and which were the subject of his research. Of course, in
those days our ideologists did everything possible to brand him a "bourgeois
falsifier" and "patented Ukraine-lover."
Professor Mace's thoughts are the next item posted in this gallery.
The Day, November 24, 1998
http://day.kiev.ua/DIGEST/1998/42/issue.htm
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