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We commemorate millions who died during the Holodomor genocide against Ukrainians. #Голодомор #Holodomor means to die by hunger.
The following 🧵includes
1) info from @UWCongress @ukrcancongress
2) a list some resources
3) and a sample of key scholarship
1/20
The following 🧵includes
1) info from @UWCongress @ukrcancongress
2) a list some resources
3) and a sample of key scholarship
1/20
From November 21-27, 2022, Ukraine and the world will honor the memory of the victims of the 1932-33 Holodomor-genocide with a week of events around the globe. This year’s slogan of the global campaign to commemorate the Holodomor is “We Remember, Unite, and Shall Overcome” 2/20
Honor the memories of millions of murdered Ukrainians by taking part in the events of annual Holodomor-genocide memorialization in the countries where you reside. Informational materials to help you hold memorial events in your community are available drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobi… 3/20
Just reading about Thomas Hartley Montgomery, the only Irish police office to receive the death penalty for murder (he was hanged in 1873) and it's like a 19thC Omagh-based version of #Bloodlands cotyroneireland.com/traumatic/newt…
He killed William Glass, a clerk at the Northern Bank in Newtownstewart, and then made off with £1,600. To cover his tracks, Montgomery took over the investigation into the murder.
It all looked to be going Sub-Inspector Montgomery's way until witnesses came forward to say that they'd seen Montgomery leaving the bank an hour before the body was found and his colleagues realised that M was in major financial difficulties.
Timothy Snyder’s ‘Bloodlands’ is ‘propaganda with footnotes’. I’ve only read a tenth of the book, but I can already tell that Grover Furr’s 600-page riposte to Snyder’s pathetic effort is a banger!
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‘The reader is evidently supposed to assume that a full professor of history at Yale University, as Snyder is, would cite his sources honestly, and therefore assume that Snyder does in fact have evidence to support the claims he makes in his text.’ #Bloodlands
‘The notion of a ‘deliberate famine’ or ‘Holodomor’ was invented by pro-Nazi, anticommunist Ukrainian nationalists after World War II.’ #Bloodlands
1/14 My six books about #Ukraine. I am called upon to answer questions about Ukraine every day. My books, which represent a quarter century of research and thought, often do a better job than I can while speaking live or in short pieces.
2/14 I don't often mention my books on Ukraine, because I feel uneasy promoting things that cost money while people in Ukraine are suffering and dying in this horrible unjustifiable invasion. I will continue to make meaningful donations to Ukraine. If you can, I hope you will too
3/14 My book that is most immediately relevant to the Russian invasion of Ukraine is "The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America." It is a history of the 2010s that links Russia's first invasion of Ukraine (2014) to its interference in US elections (2016).
1/10. Ukraine matters today as it has mattered for a century: as a signal of coming political trends. A century ago, it was the center of the wars after the First World War that ended in the creation of the Soviet Union. #SerhiiPlokhii #GatesofEurope
2/10. For Stalin, Ukraine was a breadbasket to be exploited to modernize the USSR. His policies led to the starvation of millions of inhabitants of Ukraine. @anneapplebaum #RedFamine
3/10. For Hitler, Ukraine was a breadbasket to be exploited to create a German empire. His desire to take Ukraine from the USSR brought about the Second World War. #Bloodlands
