Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergei Nechaev from an article he wrote for a German newspaper Junge Welt He wrote that the attempt by a number of Bundestag deputies to pass a resolution recognizing the Holodomor as genocide is ahistorical.
He noted that the embassy learned from the press “with great sadness and surprise” that German deputies called for the recognition of the mass famine in the USSR in the early 30s of the last century as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Nechaev said that this approach is against the facts and common sense as well as being anti-historical. The real facts, according to the ambassador, are that more than 7 million people died of starvation in the USSR in the early 1930s. At the same time, 2.5 million in the Russian part of the country and 1.5 million in Kazakhstan.
As Nechaev points out, the famine was huge and indiscriminate. And not only Ukrainians, but also Russians, Belarusians, Tatars, Bashkirs and other peoples suffered.
Ukrainian authorities announced Holodomor “genocide” in 2006. In Moscow, Kiev’s actions were called “an attempt to politicize history and discuss the Russian and Ukrainian peoples.”
Source: Gazeta
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