The Holodomors as an organic Component of Genocide, Ethnocide and linguistic Genocide of the ukrainian Nation
Authors: GUNDA Roman 
Published: November 2024

The article analyzes the works of researchers on the causes, consequences and peculiarities of mass artificial famines in Ukraine in 1921–1923, 1932–1933 and 1946–1947, which were deliberately organized by Lenin and Stalin and their oprichniki, based on the classification of genocidal crimes developed by Raphael Lemkin (1944) and the UN concept of the prevention and punishment of crime (1948). It is noted that on May 15, 2003, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in an official address to the people of Ukraine recognized the Holodomor of 1932–1933 as an act of genocide, and on November 28, 2006, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the law “On the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine”, which interprets the events of 1932–1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people. The essence of the Holodomor of Ukrainian peasants is considered as the main part of genocide, ethnocide, and linguistic genocide of the Ukrainian nation. After all, Ukrainian peasants are the lifeblood of national identity. The author emphasizes that there was a fundamental difference between the Ukrainian Holodomor and the Holodomor that affected other regions of the USSR at that time. Farmers of other nationalities were starved to death as a hostile social class of “kulaks-bandits”, while Ukrainian peasants became victims of the communist crime primarily because they belonged to the Ukrainian nation, whose separatism could lead to the collapse of the newest Russian empire called the USSR. It is emphasized that the new economic policy in the Soviet Union and Ukrainianization contributed significantly to the revival of the national spirit of Ukrainians wherever they lived in the USSR. The Moscow-Stalinist regime decided to end the policy of Ukrainization, not only in Ukraine but also in other regions where Ukrainians lived in dense populations. These territories included the Kuban (2 million), Kursk region (4.3 million), Voronezh region (1 million), the Far East, Siberia, and Turkestan (600 thousand Ukrainians each). Ukraine exercised patronage over them: it sent national personnel there, promoted the development of Ukrainian education, the publication of Ukrainian newspapers, provided literature, etc. Thus, Ukrainians targeted groups, both national in Ukraine and ethnic in other regions of the USSR. Each of the three Holodomor strikes was conceived and carried out by the Moscow-Communist regime as a comprehensive means of exsanguinating and leveling the physical and spiritual nature of the Ukrainian nation, subduing, disfiguring, and degrading its soul. According to statistics, an average of 25,000 Ukrainians died every day in February 1933, 1,041 people every hour, or 17 people every minute. Most of the deaths were of children. There were cases of cannibalism. “Ukrainian peasants were destroyed not because they were peasants, but because they were shod with Ukrainian peasants”. (R. Conquest) In this cynical way, the Moscow-Stalinist herdsmen “replaced ethnographic material”: Russians were settled in Ukrainian villages, exhausted by starvation, creating a Russian-speaking environment. “The current catastrophe will lead to the colonization of Ukraine by the predominantly Russian population. A great misfortune that mows down millions of people isdestroying the younger generation of an entire nation. It will change their ethnic identity... So there will be no Ukrainian problem, because Ukraine will become part of Russia” (S. Gradenigo). Today, the Moscow-Putin bloody regime is also pursuing a horrific policy of genocide, ethnocide and linguistic genocide against Ukrainians, and is bleeding the Ukrainian nation. More than 20,000 Ukrainian children have already been exposed and otherwise taken to Russia to be raised as Ukrainianhating janissaries. The article emphasizes that the most important tasks in the current conditions of the Russian Federation’s full-scale war against Ukraine are the defense of the Motherland, the formation and affirmation of Ukrainian national consciousness and dignity, statehood thinking and beliefs, moral and spiritual values, overcoming the post-genocidal syndrome, that is, ensuring the vitality of the mentality and Ukrainian national identity. This dominance of the Ukrainian national spirit will lead to the victory over the eternal Moscow enemies, and will be a reliable basis for Ukraine’s worthy place in the European and world civilization. Keywords: famine, Holodomor, genocide, ethnocide, linguocide, national spirit, aggression, Ukrainians, Russian chauvinism.