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Atanas T. Kobryn, Publicity Chairman
Coordinating Committee of American Ukrainian Organizations
North Port and Surrounding Communities, North Port, FL
Thursday, October 30, 2003
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NORTH PORT, FLORIDA.........The horrendous crime perpetrated by Joseph
Stalin and his henchmen seventy years ago, which resulted in between seven
and ten million deaths from starvation in an area heretofore known
throughout the world as "The Breadbasket of Europe", long ignored by the
Western world as a result of propaganda cleverly conceived by Stalin and his
Kremlin cohorts and disseminated by most newspapers including The New York
Times (reports of Walter Duranty, eventually recognized as "Stalin's
apologist") is being finally recognized for what it was, the mass murder by
hunger.
The United States House of Representatives recently approved unanimously the
House Resolution 356 recognizing the manmade famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 as
an act of genocide as defined by the United Nations Genocide Convention. A
Senate Resolution 202 regarding the genocidal famine was introduced and will
be voted on.
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Cover of the Brochure Published by the Ukraine 3000 Foundation, 2003
(Click on images to enlarge them)
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Other countries, including Argentina, Canada, and others, including the
United Nations, have approved or are considering legislations and/or
resolutions commemorating the millions starved to death and condemning the
dastardly act perpetrated by Joseph Stalin and his coconspirators and
enforcers.
Joseph Stalin, the dictator of the Communist Russian empire, by then using
the name of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, had two major problems
at the end of 1920s: how to finance his ambitious plan to industrialize the
empire with hardly any industry to speak of, and how to pacify Ukraine, the
largest non-Russian "republic" recently forcibly incorporated into the USSR
after the army of the independent Ukrainian National Republic was defeated
by the Russian Communist forces led by Leon Trotsky.
To finance the industrialization he needed hard currency which would be
possible to obtain by exporting grain. To pacify Ukraine, where resistance
to the Russian occupation continued unabated Stalin decided to confiscate
all privately owned land and to establish collective farms, a common
practice in Russia but alien to the freedom loving and individualistic
Ukrainians.
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Next step was to confiscate all grain kept by farmers for both the
consumption
and for sowing, and to sell it abroad for hard currency. Vyacheslav Molotov
and Lazar Kaganovich were personally commissioned by Stalin to organize
the horrors that were committed in Ukraine and Kuban, a territory whose
population up until then was predominantly Ukrainian.
On August 11, 1932, Stalin wrote a letter to Kaganovich that Ukraine could
be lost and had to be turned into the most inalienable Soviet republic. On
October 22, 1932, Molotov and Kaganovich were named to take direct
control of the grain seizures in Ukraine and the Kuban.
The heretofore wealthy peasants were de facto sentenced to death by
starvation while the Ukrainian grain was being shipped abroad to earn hard
currency for the governmental projects and to demonstrate to the world that
all is well inside the Soviet Union, which most westerners desperately
wanted to believe.
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To commemorate the seventieth anniversary of this genocidal famine the
American Ukrainians of North Port and surrounding communities will hold a
candlelight vigil in North Port's Veterans Park Saturday evening, November
15, 2003. More details will be made public within the next few days. Similar
commemorative assemblies, marches, and prayer services will be held
throughout the world.
We are inviting our non-Ukrainian friends and neighbors to join us in
honoring the memory of seven-to-ten million victims of this crime. It has
been said that the silent treatment accorded by the free world the 1932-33
famine in Ukraine did in fact gave Hitler, Stalin's partner in launching
W.W.II, the "green light" for planning and carrying out the Holocaust.
Let us all say with one voice: NEVER AGAIN!
Atanas T. Kobryn, Publicity Chairman
Coordinating Committee of American Ukrainian Organizations
of North Port and Surrounding Communities, North Port, FL
Tel./FAX No.: (941) 423-9499, E-mail: atanask@aol.com.
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