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KREMLIN BULLIES NEIGHBORS OVER HOLODOMOR
Kyiv Post
Nov 30 2010
Ukraine
Russia pressured Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and other regional
leaders in 2008 to not recognize the Holodomor famine, which killed
millions in 1932-1933, as genocide against the Ukrainian people.
According to a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,
published on Nov. 29 by WikiLeaks, Britain's Prince Andrew, a frequent
visitor to the region, said that Aliyev had received a letter from
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "telling him that if Azerbaijan
supported the designation of the Bolshevik artificial famine in
Ukraine as 'genocide' at the United Nations, 'then you can forget
about seeing Nagorno-Karabakh ever again.'"'
Nagorno-Karabakh is a separatist region on Azerbaijan's border with
Armenia.
Prince Andrew said other leaders had received similar "directive"
letters.
The interventions by Medvedev are evidence of the extraordinary
lengths that the Kremlin was prepared to go to in order to prevent
international recognition for the Stalin-ordered famine, which claimed
most of its starvation victims in Ukraine, whose rural residents
resisted Soviet collectivization.
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko campaigned at home
and abroad for acknowledgement of Holodomor as genocide, a move
opposed by Russia. The debate was a major factor in spats between
the two presidents, as Yushchenko defined Ukraine's history in ways
that were sharply at odds with Soviet and Russian interpretations,
at least under Putin.
Read more:
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/91744/#ixzz16oOzlpRh
From: A. Papazian
Kyiv Post
Nov 30 2010
Ukraine
Russia pressured Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and other regional
leaders in 2008 to not recognize the Holodomor famine, which killed
millions in 1932-1933, as genocide against the Ukrainian people.
According to a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,
published on Nov. 29 by WikiLeaks, Britain's Prince Andrew, a frequent
visitor to the region, said that Aliyev had received a letter from
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "telling him that if Azerbaijan
supported the designation of the Bolshevik artificial famine in
Ukraine as 'genocide' at the United Nations, 'then you can forget
about seeing Nagorno-Karabakh ever again.'"'
Nagorno-Karabakh is a separatist region on Azerbaijan's border with
Armenia.
Prince Andrew said other leaders had received similar "directive"
letters.
The interventions by Medvedev are evidence of the extraordinary
lengths that the Kremlin was prepared to go to in order to prevent
international recognition for the Stalin-ordered famine, which claimed
most of its starvation victims in Ukraine, whose rural residents
resisted Soviet collectivization.
Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko campaigned at home
and abroad for acknowledgement of Holodomor as genocide, a move
opposed by Russia. The debate was a major factor in spats between
the two presidents, as Yushchenko defined Ukraine's history in ways
that were sharply at odds with Soviet and Russian interpretations,
at least under Putin.
Read more:
http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/91744/#ixzz16oOzlpRh
From: A. Papazian