Belarus experts deny 1930s famine in Ukraine was genocide
The 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine is not a genocide of Ukrainians, Belarus's National Archive Director Vyachaslau Selyameneu said at a press conference in Moscow.
"It was the famine due to the policy of collectivization; it was not a deliberate policy against Ukrainians the way they now try to describe in Ukraine", he said". Selyameneu is convinced that the famine in 1932-1933 was widespread across the whole of the Soviet Union. It reached the largest scale in Ukraine.
Vyachaslau Selyameneu brought several facts of "bread riots" in Belarus as well as the migration of Belarusians to Poland due to hunger. The Belarusian archivists passed all these documents over to their Russian colleagues who work on a compilation of documents titled 'Famine in the USSR'. The first volume of the book is expected to come out in 2009.
The Ukrainian People's Party is pushing for a legislation that would envisage criminal prosecution for the denial of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, reports korrespondent.net.
"It was the famine due to the policy of collectivization; it was not a deliberate policy against Ukrainians the way they now try to describe in Ukraine", he said". Selyameneu is convinced that the famine in 1932-1933 was widespread across the whole of the Soviet Union. It reached the largest scale in Ukraine.
Vyachaslau Selyameneu brought several facts of "bread riots" in Belarus as well as the migration of Belarusians to Poland due to hunger. The Belarusian archivists passed all these documents over to their Russian colleagues who work on a compilation of documents titled 'Famine in the USSR'. The first volume of the book is expected to come out in 2009.
The Ukrainian People's Party is pushing for a legislation that would envisage criminal prosecution for the denial of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine, reports korrespondent.net.
