- LOS ANGELES - As Britain's
socialist government cleared the way for a gaudy show trial of that Great
Satan of the left, Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the 65th anniversary
of this century's bloodiest crime was utterly ignored. Leftists now baying
for Pinochet's head don't want to be reminded of the Unknown Holocaust.
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- In 1932, Soviet leader Josef Stalin unleashed genocide
in Ukraine. Stalin determined to force Ukraine's millions of independent
farmers - called `kulaks'- into collectivized Soviet agriculture, and to
crush Ukraine's growing spirit of nationalism.
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- Ukraine's nightmare had begun in 1932. Faced by resistance
to collectivization, Stalin unleashed terror upon Ukraine. Moscow dispatched
25,000 fanatical young party militants - earlier versions of Mao's `Red
Guards' - to force 10 million Ukrainian peasants into collective farms.
Secret police units of OGPU began selective executions of recalcitrant
farmers.
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- When Stalin's red guards failed to make a dent in this
immense number, OGPU was ordered to begin mass executions. But there were
simply not enough Chekists (secret police) to kill so many people, so Stalin
decided to replace bullets by a much cheaper medium of death, mass starvation.
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- All seed stocks, grain, silage, and farm animals were
confiscated from Ukraine's farms. Ethiopia's communist dictator, Mengistu
Haile Mariam, used the very same method in the 1970's to force collectivization:
the resulting famine cased one million deaths.
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- OGPU agents and Red Army troops sealed all roads and
rail lines. Nothing came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and
looted of food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold,
and sickness.
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- When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin
sent henchman, Lazar Kaganovich (a Jew), to destroy Ukrainian resistance.
Kaganovitch, the Soviet Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians
weekly. Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed. Ukrainian
Nikita Khruschchev (a Jew) helped supervise the slaughter.
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- During the bitter winter of 1932-33, mass starvation
created by Kaganovitch and OGPU hit full force. Ukrainians ate their pets,
boots, belts, bark, and roots. Cannibalism became common; parents even
ate infant children.
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- The precise number of Ukrainians murdered by Stalin's
custom-made famine and Cheka firing squads remains unknown to this day.
KGB's archives, and recent work by Russian historians, shows at least 7
million Ukrainians died. Ukrainian historians put the figure at 9 million,
or higher. Twenty-five percent of Ukraine's population was exterminated.
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- Six million other farmers across the USSR were starved
or shot during collectivization. Stalin told Churchill he liquidated ten
million peasants during the 1930's. Add mass executions by the Cheka in
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; the genocide of 3 million Muslims of the
USSR; massacres of Cossacks and Volga Germans. In total, Soviet industrial
genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims, not including 20 million
war dead.
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- Kaganovitch, and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD)
were Jewish. The predominance of Jews among Bolshevik leaders, and the
frightful crimes and cruelty inflicted by Stalin's Cheka on Ukraine, the
Baltic, and Poland, led the victims of Red Terror to blame the Jewish people
for both communism and their suffering. As a direct result, during the
subsequent Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, the region's innocent Jews
became the target of ferocious revenge by Ukrainians, Balts, and Poles.
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- While the world is by now fully aware of the destruction
of Europe's Jews by the Nazis, the story of the numerically larger holocaust
in Ukraine has been suppressed, or ignored. Ukraine's genocide occured
8-9 years before Hitler began the Jewish Holocaust, and was committed,
unlike Nazi crimes, before the world's gaze. But Stalin's murder of millions
was simply denied, or concealed by a leftwing conspiracy of silence that
continues to this day. In the strange moral geometry of mass murder, only
Nazis are guilty.
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- Socialist luminaries like Bernard Shaw, Beatrice and
Sidney Webb, and PM Edouard Herriot of France, toured Ukraine during 1932-33,
and proclaimed reports of famine were false. Shaw announced, `I did not
see one under-nourished person in Russia.' New York Times correspondent
Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his Russian reporting, wrote
claims of famine were `malignant propaganda.' Seven million people were
dying around them, yet these fools saw nothing. The New York Times has
never repudiated Duranty's lies.
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- Modern leftists do not care to be reminded their ideological
and historical roots are entwined with this century's greatest crime -
Stalin's mass murder machine - the inevitable result of enforced social
engineering and marxist theology. Had Germany won the war, today's `reformed'
Euro-Nazis would take the same amnesiac approach to Hitler as modern European
socialists do to Stalin.
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- Western historians delicately skirt the sordid fact that
the governments of Britain, the US, and Canada were fully aware of the
Ukrainian genocide and Stalin's other monstrous crimes. Yet they eagerly
welcomed him as an ally during World War II. Stalin, whom an adoring Roosevelt
called `Uncle Joe,' murdered four times more people than Adolf Hitler -
and a decade earlier. Roosevelt and Churchill colluded with and helped
save history's most murderous regime. Time to face this ugly fact.
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- None of the Soviet mass murderers who committed genocide
were ever brought to justice. `Soviet Eichmann' Lazar Kaganovitch died
peacefully in Moscow a few years ago, still wearing his Order of the Soviet
Union, and enjoying a generous state pension.
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