And I'm a bit late in the game on this one, but a statue of Hryhoriy Petrovsky, a former Communist head of Ukraine, no longer stands in Kyiv's Europe Square. It was removed in late November, in conjunction with Holodomor commemorative ceremonies in Ukraine. Yushchenko himself ordered this as a tribute to the memory of Holodomor victims, since Petrovsky was against Ukrainian nationalism and is considered to be one of the main perpetrators of the man-made famine, along with Lazar Kaganovich.
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Some Holodomor news
Ukraine's security service (the SBU) has accused certain Holodomor perpetrators by name. These include Stalin and other high officials of the USSR. This is the latest development in Ukraine's criminal case - against whom, exactly? - which is attempting to prove that Holodomor was indeed a genocide against the Ukrainian people.
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