Readers of history should know that Cossacks originated from two distinct “hosts”: one in Russia on the Don River serviced the Tsar and the empire; the other, in Ukraine on the Dnipro River, fiercely independent & for most of its almost 400 year existence, opposed to the Tsar and the Russian Empire.

Volodia Petliura, Zhytomyr, Ukraine

Cossacks can be only polyethnic Russian, only after weakening the Cossacks after Holodomor to intensifying the Ukrainian nationalism became possible. Kuban Cossacks can even erase the nationalists, any nationalist can test (go to Kuban). Tragedy is being distorted deliberately to drive a nationalist political agenda in Ukraine, driving a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian.

Sergey_S, St-Petersburg, Russia

Cossacks can be only polyethnic Russian, only after weakening the Cossacks after Holodomor to intensifying the Ukrainian nationalism became possible. Kuban Cossacks can even erase the nationalists, any nationalist can test (Oleksa go to Kuban). Tragedy is being distorted deliberately to drive a nationalist political agenda in Ukraine, driving a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian.

Sergei-S, St.-Petersburg, Russia

In 1932-33s in Russia famine in such horrible scale only took place in Kuban where mostly lived ethnic Ukrainians. More than 90% of victims are Ukrainians! According to census (even to lying Stalin's census) in 1926 ratio Ukrainians vs Russians were 31:77 but in 1937 there were 26:93. How can it be?

Oleksa, Kyiv, Ukraine

In Russia famine took place only in Kuban where lived mostly ethnic Ukrainians. In Povolje lived a lot of ethnic Germans. Am I miss another place?
More than 90% of victims are Ukrainians. According to the census in 1920s ammount of Ukraininans and Russians are equal but now is 1:3. How can it be?

Oleksa, Kyiv, Ukraine

In Russia famine only took place in Kuban where lived mostly ethnic Ukrainians. In Povolje lived a lot of ethnic Germans. Am I miss other Russian region? More than 90% of victims are Ukrainians! According to census in 1920s ammount of Ukrainians and Russians were equal and now is 1:3. How can it be?

Oleksa, Kyiv, Ukraine

What do you know about US Holodomor in 1930? The great depression had south US famine. How many black and poor people could die in USA? and even real genocide ameridians. Why, economic policy of industrialization of Bolsheviks was absolutely identical of British economic policy of industrialization "when sheeps to eats of people".

Sergei, St-Petersburg, Russia

Anti-Semitic post by Soviet-apologist Justin proves what Moe said: the Kremlin & “useful idiots” in the west blame everyone else for their crimes. If you check Justin’s list of perps you’ll see it’s ethnically mixed. What they do have in common is their Bolshevism and their Great Russian Chauvinism.

Volodia, Toronto, Canada

Lazar Kaganovich , Genrikh Yagoda , Nikolai Yezhov , Joseph Stalin (Djugashvili) but a few of the top Zionist Jews responsible for the mass genocide in Russia and Ukraine !
Do the research...Google this "NKVD Jews Genocide Russia Ukraine" facts are facts , grow up and deal with it.

Justin, Victoria, Australia

The Holodomor was a genocide as defined by the U.N.: “any … acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, … group, such as: c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;”

Moe, Grafton, Ukriane

It is worth remembering that the USSR as a member of the Security Council prevented the adoption of the original and fuller definition of genocide, which included “political” as well as “national, ethnic, racial or religious groups” as victims.

Moe, Grafton, Ukriane

The Kremlin always tries to credit “Soviets” or even “Russia” for the triumphs of WWII while it was Ukrainians, Belarusins and Jews who sacrificed the most. Similarly, the Kremlin tries to claim the Holodomor and the Holocaust as “Soviet” tragedies, denying Ukrainians and Jews were the prime targets

Moe, Grafton, Ukriane

I support Ukraininias. Russia never wants to admit its guilts.

Jolanta, bialystok, poland

I can remember the one & only memorial to the vicitms of the Holocaust I ever saw in the USSR never mentioned Jews – only “Soviet citizens.” Today, the Kremlin is trying to do the same with the Holodomor – deny the ethnicity of the victims, deny that Ukrainians died in the millions & millions.

Mary, Etobicoke, Canada

Dear Volodia from Canada. I am not Russian official, but I know that Russia doesn't deny Holodomor as well as Russia never denied 'Jewishness of the Holocaust', which would be the same nonsence as genocide of Ukranians. Holodomor is a crime taken place in USSR, but it is not a genocide of Ukrainians

Alex, Odessa, Ukraine

Dear Valentina from Kyiv. Thank you for your attention. Perhaps you just don’t know that small-scale farmers and peasants in USSR in 30’s didn’t have civil passports and their migration was restricted everywhere. Your 'only' is not applicable here. And the 'soldiers' were ethnical Ukranians too.

Alex, Odessa, Ukraine

Dear Alex from Odessa! You still try to say again and again that the Ukrainian experince of famine is the same like foe Russians. Only in Ukrainian railway stations there were soldiers who did no permit people to leave villages for towns.

Valentina, Kiev, Ukriane

Do you have some conscience and brains if use as the attestor of the very old, Mr Garaschenko, 89, so What he could remember in the age of four years? They does not wish to use a scientific method of comparison for study of a problem, they is similar to the Protestant ecclesiasts, they does not wish a development of democracy. The population of Ukraine after 1990 was reduced from 52 millions up to 45 millions.

Sergey, St.-Petersburg, Russia

As a son of a Holodomor survivor what I find most distressing is the widespread denial of the Holodomor. The Kremlin’s odious attempts to try to “de-ethnicise” these mass murders by the Soviet Union, are as specious as their old attempts to deny the Jewishness of the Holocaust. And just as repugnant

Volodia, Toronto, Canada

Do you have conscience if use as attestor of old, Garaschenko, 89, What he could remember in age, 4? You doesn't wish to use a scientific method of comparison for study of a problem, you is similar to ecclesiasts, you doesn't wish a development of democracy. The population of Ukraine after 1990 was reduced from 52 up to 45.

Sergey_S, St.-Petersburg, Russia

Some countries in Europe have suffered more from Stalin then Hitler, but both are the same evil. Communism crimes should be in the history books alongside nazi ones

Dainius, Varena , Lithuania

"Russia glorifies brutal dictator and butcher Stalin." This is lie!! Stalin killed many innocent people, mostly Russians, and it is legally condemed. However, it doesn't mean that Ukranian politicians are allowed to falsify history to get some 'blood-covered' benefits.

Alex, Odessa, Ukraine

"Russia will NEVER be a normal country until it faces & deals with Soviet crimes"

Anna Pihta, Roanoke, USA

How about Ukraine? Why don't Ukrainians face THEIR role in the Soviet crimes? Don't they want to be a normal country as well?

Oleg, Ontario, Canada

It is time for history and historians to discuss WHO FUNDED monsters like Stalin. Knowledgeable people know that it was the banksters and industrialists. There is a short, but very recognizable list of villains involved. Their descendants are continuing the family tradition.

G de Miranda, San Antonio, Texas, USA

World War Two was not about the Holocaust.Twenty-Five million Soviet people died to ensure victory . None was compensated. The German military had 80% of its might and its casualties in the USSR. In the famine more Russians and others died than Ukrainians. Stalin was Georgian and his chiefs Jewish

Marco Borg, London, United Kingdom

Putin's Russia glorifies brutal dictator and butcher Stalin. To admit the death by deliberate starvation of millions of Ukrainians would mar the picture. A Yakovlev wrote in "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" that Russia will NEVER be a normal country until it faces & deals with Soviet crimes

Anna Pihta, Roanoke, USA

Both Stalin and Hitler were evil totalitarians. The difference is that the crimes of one are known and condemned & the perpetrators were brought to justice. Communist crimes are still little known and the perpetrators often glorified.

Mari-Ann, Tallinn, Estonia

Try reading "The Whisperers" by Orlando Figes; it tells you all about it.

William, Putney,

If Goya can be put into words, this is the historian Mark Mazower's chilling description of the Holodomor in his magisterial recount of the dark 20th century. Fathom the picture of the old father trying to claim a seed of grain from a horse's dung, only to be shot by a Soviet soldier.

Titos Christodoulou, London, UK

A lot of not-jewish people were murdered during Holocost, but noone says that Holocost was not a henoside against Jewish. The same to the Femine of 1932-33: Ukrainians, Polish, Jewish, Russians died during the femine, but there were no military forces around Russian villiges to prevent the escape...

Maria, Kyiv, Ukraine

Jim,

FYI: Stalin was a Georgian.

Sergey, Moscow, Russia

Hunger wasn't only in UA. I'm from Povolgie, RF where it's also. This's place where are from UA institutions take false photos about UA Holodomor. Also these photos used in the film Soviet Story.
UA Gov use this theme trying proving going to NATO. Saying something like Russian is BAD we need NATO.

Pavel S.Tsarevskiy, Samara, Russia

My family was honored to visit a Ukrainian family at their dacha in 1994. I innocently asked what was in the huge box In the bottom of their refridgerator. The translation was, "Butter. My father faced starvation in the 1930's and vowed to never be hungry again."

Susan, Washington, DC, USA

Holodomor crime did take place that time, and not only in Ukraine. About 10 mio of Russians, Belorussians and others in USSR were murdered by hunger. For communists ethnical identity had no role, and those 'Soviet soldiers' were most likely ethnical Ukranians. Crime, one of many, but not genocide!!!

Alex, Odessa, Ukraine

Correction - who was more evil - Stalin, Hitler or Bush?

Connor, Thorpe, UK

I am a nEx-Pat Brit in Kiev. I recently signed the on-line petition to Gordon Brown,requesting him to support the finding of Genocide. He declined, stating the evidence was inconclusive. No, Gordon, its overwhelmingly conclusive, despite Russia's attempts to destroy it. I am ashamed of G Brown

Riley, Kiev, Ukraine

On my last visit to Kyiv I went to St. Andrews church and to the left of the church is a small information display regarding the Holodmor. It is quite apparent using Soviet's own numbers that Ukrainian's were the primary victims. It is a hard choice to determine who was more evil Stalin or Hitler.

Jim, Northridge,