As expected, Russia sharply criticized the German Bundestag’s decision to recognize the famine in Ukraine in 1932/33, which killed millions, as a genocide ordered by the Soviets. The Russian foreign ministry said on Thursday that this should be seen as an anti-Russian provocation and an attempt by Germany to whitewash its Nazi past.
“Another attempt has been made to justify and promote a campaign started in Ukraine and supported by the West to demonize Russia and incite ethnic Ukrainians against Russians,” the Russian foreign ministry said. “The Germans are trying to rewrite their history (…) by downplaying their own guilt and clouding the memory of the unprecedented nature of the myriad crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War II,” the statement said.
Moscow: “Bundestag wants to revive racial hatred”
The Moscow government regularly accuses Ukraine of fascist tendencies, justifying the invasion of the neighboring country by Russian troops on February 24. Now the Bundestag is also being accused of wanting to revive “the fascist ideology of racial hatred”. For Ukrainians, the memory of the Holodomor is central to the country’s identity as an independent nation-state and a testament to the historical injustice inflicted on Ukrainians by those in power in Moscow.
In November 1932, Soviet ruler Josef Stalin had all grain and livestock confiscated from the newly collectivized Ukrainian farms, including seeds for the next crop. Millions of Ukrainian peasants died of starvation in the months that followed. Russia – like Ukraine a successor state of the Soviet Union – has always rejected the assessment of genocide. At that time, millions of people in other parts of the Soviet Union also suffered, so the argument goes.
Source: Krone
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