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MOSCOW. (Political commentator Leonid Mlechin...
left in the cities, and for this reason the villages were robbed. Grain was the main currency there. The authorities resorted to food confiscation squadrons and decided to eliminate the rich peasants (kulaks) as a class - in modern terms this would be called a procedure of accelerated bankruptcy. The destruction of villages led to the famine during the 1932-1933 winter all over the country.Dooming one's own people to death by starvation is a heinous crime and all Stalinist leaders are to blame for it. This crime cannot be justified, but it does not amount to genocide. Moscow did not plan to deliberately kill Ukrainians or Kazakhs. Politburo members did not care who would die of famine they engineered...
In other words, this requires a serious historical analysis. Interference of politicians into historical studies will do no good.
Historians note that it is unfair and unrealistic to reduce the Ukrainian national idea to provincial buffoonery, light
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