VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday prayed that no political ideology would ever again cost people their freedom and dignity, as he recalled the millions who died from famine in Ukraine and other Soviet regions under dictator Josef Stalin.
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The pontiff spoke in Ukrainian to pilgrims from that country in St. Peter’s Square, and noted that this month marks the anniversary of Holodomor, or Death by Hunger, as the famine is known in Ukraine.
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Benedict said he prayed that “nations go forward on the paths of reconciliation and build the present and the future in reciprocal respect and in the sincere search for peace.”
Pope Benedicts words are a lot more bipartisan than his more charasmatic predecessor Pope John Paul II – don’t expect much help from them!
Ukrainian-Canadians spent Saturday marking the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor, the nightmarish famine that killed millions in the Ukraine in the early 1930s.
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National Holodomor Awareness Week in Canada begins this weekend with candlelight vigils and other events Saturday, and memorial services at Ukrainian churches across the country on Sunday.
A Collection of works by well-known American researcher of the Holodomor James Mace named “Your Dead Have Chosen Me…” was first published in Ukraine. The historian and journalist was the first among western researchers to seriously prove and publicly state that the Holodomor was an act of
genocide of the Ukrainian people.
U.S. President George Bush has named a delegation to attend events in Ukraine on Saturday marking the 75th anniversary of the Stalin-era famine known as the Holodomor. Twenty-five delegations are expected to attend, however Presidents of Macedonia, Montenegro and Azerbaijan canceled their plans to come.
The Russian president turned down an invitation to attend commemorative events held in Ukraine in mid-November to mark the 75th anniversary of the famine. “The Russian president humiliates millions of innocent victims of the Famine. Any president has a commitment to respect his country’s history. This is an elementary ethical code,†Yushchenko replied. Ukrainian intellectuals are to send an open letter to Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev expressing their disapproval of his position.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili will take part in the International Forum My Nation Will Live Forever. The Forum will open on November 22 in Kyiv.
A presentation of a book entitled “Genocide Crime of the Totalitarian Regime in Ukraine 1932-1933 Holodomor” took place in Zagreb, Croatia.
A week-long commemoration begins Sunday with a ceremony at the Manitoba Legislature to mark the 75th anniversary of an event known in English as the Ukrainian genocide.
Today in the Bloor West Village (between Jane and Kennedy Park Rd) at 4:45pm, the Ukrainian community will get together to form a Chain of Remembrance:
Sat. Nov. 22nd is the International Holodomor Remembrance Day. The Toronto Ukrainian Community will be joining together to form a Chain of Remembrance along Bloor St. West. We invite individuals, families, and organizations to come together and come out to tell the rest of the city about the Holodomor.
So much has been accomplished in the last year- school boards and legislatures across the country have recognized the Holodomor. These are great achievements, but we still have make sure that the general public knows the terror that swept through Ukraine in 1932-33.
Let’s band together one final time this year, our entire community, our youth with our Holodomor survivors. Let’s remember our impact four years ago during Ukraine’s Orange Revolution- together we can make a difference, together we will be heard.
Each organization will be represented along various parts of Bloor St. The Ukrainian National Federation will be meeting at 4:45PM in front of the Ukrainian Credit Union on the South
Side of Bloor St. and we invite all of our members and their family to attend this very important event.
A documentary film by a Latvian director that shows the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the Holocaust.Furthermore,it’s a documentary about the Soviet crimes against humanity and its own people. More importantly, it underlines the similarity of Soviet and Nazi regimes and undisputed ways of how they helped and supported each other.
It ends with a conclusion of how Europe lacks political will to fully condemn Communist crimes against humanity because �this is not how the world works. With Germany and Russia building gas pipelines together, it is difficult to imagine one being vocal against the other, and requiring e.g extradition of former Soviet KGB interrogators who tortured many people to death. They continue to live in Moscow as decorated veterans.
The documentary “The Soviet Story†is directed by Edvins Snore, who spent 10 years gathering information and two years filming in several countries. Among those interviewed in the film are Western and Russian historians, as well as survivors of the Soviet Gulag. This is not a pure documentary and not a pure scholarly work. It injects drama and cinematography that goes beyond what we usually see in documentaries.