Thank you for this. On a side note, I no longer understand the will to live that people who undergo this kind of torture can muster. Especially now. The world is, and was, a horrible place. Oh, there are bright points (you are one) and there is beauty in the world. But to hold on to hope of a better day for humanity? Enough hope to attempt to survive such a deliberate atrocity? I can't muster it even now, and I literally have nothing to complain about.
indeed. And u r a yank as i am, it's because recent yrs have been unprecedented, literally: those who were activists in the '60's have been saying that 2020 was worse than '68. But we will prevail, do not ..everrr despair. Takes action and time, and rules/laws that are being developed for mass online media/twitter/fb etc.
It was not related to particular nation. Russia was multinational country always. Stalin did genocide to Chechen people, to Jews, Karelians, Tatars and many others.
What you write in your article here is just about Ukrainians as if they are the only victims. Ukrainians are just one of nations suffered in Stalin time
Are you purposely trying to be this painfully dense?
This is like BLM versus “All lives matter” bull. At no point did he say Stalin only made the Ukranians suffer; we sure do need to learn our history of their particular suffering to fully understand what is currently happening though.
Have some bloody sensitivity and empathy in this time of unnecessary death and destruction instead of “BUT BUT BUT… what about everyone else…?”
My great grandpa family (11 out of 12th children) died of starvation in 1932. They lived on Volga river in Russia. The last survivor was my great-grandpa. Amount of starved people in Russia and Kazakhstan is more than comparable to the deaths that Ukraine has suffered, yet everyone goes silent or "that's what they deserve" the moment anyone raises voice about Volga and Kazakstan famines. In this case, yes, all lives matter, because Ukraine was syphoning money into they uniqueness propaganda. Just like "vyshivanka" which is a traditional costume that all eastern Europeans have is somehow Ukrainian only now.
Oh, on that note, Stalin was full ethnic Georgian, not Russian.
Of course all lives matter to upstanding decent people. Ruthless dictators, however, do not care. The above article is specific to one particular atrocity. Do not (inadvertently or otherwise) seek to diminish the truth by applying thin coats of greywash with an inadequately sized brush. The horrors experienced by your family deserve better. Write an eloquent and historically accurate, authorative article about it and expose truth instead of simply spouting rhetoric
Thank you so much for this James. My family escaped just before the Holomodor to rural Manitoba for a 1/4 section - of rocks and birch trees that was not the CA govt land to give. Our family was grateful, and there was a price to pay
So to this Putin fucker who is trying AGAIN to break us, I say a hearty FUCK YOU, fuck all the way off and take your puppet that orange piece of shit fucker with you
Thank you for this. On a side note, I no longer understand the will to live that people who undergo this kind of torture can muster. Especially now. The world is, and was, a horrible place. Oh, there are bright points (you are one) and there is beauty in the world. But to hold on to hope of a better day for humanity? Enough hope to attempt to survive such a deliberate atrocity? I can't muster it even now, and I literally have nothing to complain about.
Exactly this.
indeed. And u r a yank as i am, it's because recent yrs have been unprecedented, literally: those who were activists in the '60's have been saying that 2020 was worse than '68. But we will prevail, do not ..everrr despair. Takes action and time, and rules/laws that are being developed for mass online media/twitter/fb etc.
There were several episodes of famine in Soviet Union, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_famine_of_1921%E2%80%931922
It was not related to particular nation. Russia was multinational country always. Stalin did genocide to Chechen people, to Jews, Karelians, Tatars and many others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism_and_the_National_Question
What you write in your article here is just about Ukrainians as if they are the only victims. Ukrainians are just one of nations suffered in Stalin time
Are you purposely trying to be this painfully dense?
This is like BLM versus “All lives matter” bull. At no point did he say Stalin only made the Ukranians suffer; we sure do need to learn our history of their particular suffering to fully understand what is currently happening though.
Have some bloody sensitivity and empathy in this time of unnecessary death and destruction instead of “BUT BUT BUT… what about everyone else…?”
What Liz said.
My great grandpa family (11 out of 12th children) died of starvation in 1932. They lived on Volga river in Russia. The last survivor was my great-grandpa. Amount of starved people in Russia and Kazakhstan is more than comparable to the deaths that Ukraine has suffered, yet everyone goes silent or "that's what they deserve" the moment anyone raises voice about Volga and Kazakstan famines. In this case, yes, all lives matter, because Ukraine was syphoning money into they uniqueness propaganda. Just like "vyshivanka" which is a traditional costume that all eastern Europeans have is somehow Ukrainian only now.
Oh, on that note, Stalin was full ethnic Georgian, not Russian.
Of course all lives matter to upstanding decent people. Ruthless dictators, however, do not care. The above article is specific to one particular atrocity. Do not (inadvertently or otherwise) seek to diminish the truth by applying thin coats of greywash with an inadequately sized brush. The horrors experienced by your family deserve better. Write an eloquent and historically accurate, authorative article about it and expose truth instead of simply spouting rhetoric
Thank you so much for this James. My family escaped just before the Holomodor to rural Manitoba for a 1/4 section - of rocks and birch trees that was not the CA govt land to give. Our family was grateful, and there was a price to pay
So to this Putin fucker who is trying AGAIN to break us, I say a hearty FUCK YOU, fuck all the way off and take your puppet that orange piece of shit fucker with you
I look forward to your next book!!