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Aug 19 10 tweets 11 min read
<When seeking to define #genocide, Lemkin highlighted the crimes committed by the Soviet regime in #Ukraine. He saw the #Kremlin’s systematic efforts to destroy the #Ukrainian nation as a “classic example of Soviet genocide”> atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainea…
"The central event of the #SovietUnion’s genocidal campaign in #Ukraine was the murder of + 4million #Ukrainians through artificial famine in the early 1930s. The Soviet authorities experienced almost no negative consequences as a result of this unparalleled slaughter" #Genocide
"Far from acknowledging the famine as an act of #genocide, #Moscow continues to downplay or deny Soviet crimes against humanity" #Russia
"Attempts to condemn the mass murders of the Soviet regime are now routinely dismissed as unpatriotic and anti-Russian, while #Stalin himself is once again openly celebrated as a great leader" #Russia
"Given the complete failure to hold #Russia accountable for the #crimes of the past, it is hardly surprising that these crimes are now being repeated"
"emphasis on compromise over confrontation risks further eroding international #security. If #Moscow is able to evade justice for committing #genocide in #Ukraine, other authoritarian regimes will surely see this as a green light"
"It's now[..]clear that failure to hold the #USSR accountable in 1991 was a major error. A Nuremburg-style trial exposing the #crimes of the Soviet era could've helped facilitate the post-Soviet transition to democracy &prevented #Russia’s return to authoritarianism under #Putin"
"This makes it all the more imperative that Vladimir #Putin and his accomplices now face justice. Even if they remain in power and beyond the reach of international law, there is nothing to stop the civilized world from holding a #trial in absentia"

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