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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

A Land in Blood

24 November, 1998 - 00:00

Have We the Courage to Recall the Manmade Famine?

By Liudmyla HUMENIUK, The Day
These days candles are being lit in churches in memory of the millions
of innocent victims of the Holodomor, the Great Manmade Famine of 1932-33,
the world over.

Truth about this terrible genocide tortuously made its way into world
consciousness. But sixty-five years later our compatriots abroad commemorate
it, and we wince.

Why were the facts of repression in Ukraine so stubbornly denied? Why
was it here that the heaviest weight of Stalinist terror was brought to
bear? Shall we be able to penetrate the sea of ignorance, total silence,
hypocrisy - and remember? American historian James Mace, who is not Ukrainian,
agreed to comment on some of the facts of Ukrainian history, which were
for many years a forbidden theme and which were the subject of his research.
Of course, in those days our ideologists did everything possible to brand
him a "bourgeois falsifier" and "patented Ukraine-lover."

Read Professor Mace's thoughts on Ukraine's past and present on page
Closeup.

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