Modern Genocide of Ukrainians through the Prism of Raphael Lemkin’s Consept of soviet Genocide
Journal: Вісник Львівського університету Серія історична / Visnyk of the Lviv University Historical Series
Year: 2024

In his speech delivered in New York in 1953, the famous international lawyer, the author of the term “genocide”, Raphael Lemkin proposed his own vision of the policy of the USSR towards Ukrainians as genocide. He believed that not only the extermination of Ukrainians by famine in 1932–1933 should be seemed as genocide, but also more broadly all actions of the Kremlin aimed at the Russification of the Ukrainian nation. The lawyer spoke of four “strikes”, “prongs” of the attack on the Ukrainian na