A documentary film by a Latvian director that shows the Soviet Union helped Nazi Germany instigate the Holocaust.Furthermore,it’s a documentary about the Soviet crimes against humanity and its own people. More importantly, it underlines the similarity of Soviet and Nazi regimes and undisputed ways of how they helped and supported each other.
It ends with a conclusion of how Europe lacks political will to fully condemn Communist crimes against humanity because �this is not how the world works. With Germany and Russia building gas pipelines together, it is difficult to imagine one being vocal against the other, and requiring e.g extradition of former Soviet KGB interrogators who tortured many people to death. They continue to live in Moscow as decorated veterans.
The documentary “The Soviet Story†is directed by Edvins Snore, who spent 10 years gathering information and two years filming in several countries. Among those interviewed in the film are Western and Russian historians, as well as survivors of the Soviet Gulag. This is not a pure documentary and not a pure scholarly work. It injects drama and cinematography that goes beyond what we usually see in documentaries.
First it was Manitoba, then Saskatchewan and then the whole country, but now Alberta has followed suit and approved Bill 37 last Tuesday to proclaim the 4th Saturday in November to be ‘Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day’ in the province. Only twice in Alberta’s history has a bill moved through all three stages in a single day! The bill then finally reached Royal Assent to officially become law, active immediately. You can download the bill here (PDF). This couldn’t have been done without the bill’s sponsor, Conservative and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Gene Zwozdesky, as well as Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach.
The Ukrainian Canadian Congress (UCC) condemns the recent and blatant abuse of human rights by the Russian government which has banned events planned in Russia to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Holodomor – famine genocide in Ukraine of 1932-33.
Prior to the arrival of the International Remembrance Flame in Russia, the Ukrainian Embassy received notice on October 6 from Russia’s Foreign Ministry that ommemorative events must fall in line with the Russian position on the famine or be cancelled. Russia continues to claim that the Holodomor was not a genocide and that Ukraine’s effort to secure such recognition is “a political matter that is aimed against Russian interests.”
It has been confirmed by the Ukrainian World Congress that Ukrainian community activists in Orenburg, Tumen, Ufa, St. Petersburg and Krasnodar have been subjected to undue pressure and scare tactics by government officials in the region resulting in the cancellation of planned events.
From 1932 to 1933, in the very heart of Eastern Europe’s breadbasket, the Soviet regime suppressed Ukrainians’ threats of uprising against communism. As a result, history’s only man-made famine nearly decimated a country.
Josef Stalin’s genocide policy included confiscation of grain and all other food in the rural districts, often down to a farmer’s last seed. Even whatever was in the families’ homes was taken.
An exact number of those who succumbed to the Holodomor will never be known, but best estimates say around 10 million people were victims of the genocide committed by the Soviet regime.
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