Showing posts with label Holodomor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Holodomor. Show all posts

Monday, November 29, 2010

History as a matter of diplomacy

From another cable released on Wikileaks, revealing the relations between history and foreign affairs:

"Lavrov (Serghei, the Russian top diplomat) raised Russian concern with "historical revisionism" regarding the Soviet Era and Second World War, which, he said, was particularly acute in Eastern Europe but was also present in Israel. He cited Israel's official recognition of the Holodomor, the 1930s famine that occurred in Ukraine. Lieberman explained that by recognizing this tragedy, Israel had not said Russia was guilty of causing it, nor that it was an act of genocide”.

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Monday, March 16, 2009

On Holodomor

A new perspective on the Ukrainian famine, in today's NY Times.