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    KREMLIN BULLIES NEIGHBORS OVER HOLODOMOR

    Kyiv Post
    Nov 30 2010
    Ukraine

    Russia pressured Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev and other regional
    leaders in 2008 to not recognize the Holodomor famine, which killed
    millions in 1932-1933, as genocide against the Ukrainian people.

    According to a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan,
    published on Nov. 29 by WikiLeaks, Britain's Prince Andrew, a frequent
    visitor to the region, said that Aliyev had received a letter from
    Russian President Dmitry Medvedev "telling him that if Azerbaijan
    supported the designation of the Bolshevik artificial famine in
    Ukraine as 'genocide' at the United Nations, 'then you can forget
    about seeing Nagorno-Karabakh ever again.'"'

    Nagorno-Karabakh is a separatist region on Azerbaijan's border with
    Armenia.

    Prince Andrew said other leaders had received similar "directive"
    letters.

    The interventions by Medvedev are evidence of the extraordinary
    lengths that the Kremlin was prepared to go to in order to prevent
    international recognition for the Stalin-ordered famine, which claimed
    most of its starvation victims in Ukraine, whose rural residents
    resisted Soviet collectivization.

    Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko campaigned at home
    and abroad for acknowledgement of Holodomor as genocide, a move
    opposed by Russia. The debate was a major factor in spats between
    the two presidents, as Yushchenko defined Ukraine's history in ways
    that were sharply at odds with Soviet and Russian interpretations,
    at least under Putin.

    Read more:
    http://www.kyivpost.com/news/nation/detail/91744/#ixzz16oOzlpRh




    From: A. Papazian
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