The Ukrainian Famine-Genocide

Because the Holodomor, the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide was carried out behind the Iron Curtain, it is one of the least known crimes against humanity committed by the Stalinist government of the former Soviet Union. Its magnitude is comparable to the Jewish Holocaust, yet due to the isolation of the Soviet Union from the world for over 70 years and the intricate web of lies manufactured by Soviet historians, the memory of this tragedy was suppressed and the evidence concealed. It is the Ukrainian American community's duty to share this tragic page of history with the world and ensure that the catastrophe that befell Ukraine never happen again.

The Famine-Genocide of the Ukrainian nation occurred as a result of a direct Soviet policy to crush the nationally conscious Ukrainian people. By introducing unrealistically large quotas on grain (accounting for 27% of the Soviet Union harvest, Ukraine was responsible for 38% of the quotas) and other agricultural products, the Soviet Government stripped the peasants of their food supply - causing a famine that claimed the lives of between 7 to 10 million innocent victims.

In his book The Harvest of Sorrow, British historian Robert Conquest provided a vivid picture of the devastating effects of the Famine-Genocide in Ukraine: "A quarter of the rural population, men, women, and children, lay dead or dying, the rest in various stages of debilitation with no strength to bury their families or neighbors."