Ukrainian Canadian

Back in 1983, Radio Quebec’s Planète featured the first documentary on the Holodomor on TV. A very good programme, it featured many testimonials of heartbreaking stories from this intentional genocide. It even features James Mace, the prominent Harvard researcher who published works on how the Holodomor was in fact genocide. It also mentions the Walter Duranty of the New York Times who denied the famine out right to the West, as well as the complicity of the British government not to help because of it’s relationship with the Soviet Union at the time. Please give it a watch:

This month as we approach Saturday November 28th: Ukrainian Famine and Genocide (Holodomor) Memorial Day in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, across all of Canada and some cities in the US – we are going to highlight some survivor testimonies from HolodomorSurvivors.ca

These interviews are in Ukrainian, but full English translations are available by going to their YouTube pages and clicking ‘more info’.

Maria Firman (nee Martyniuk)

Describes harassment of her father by the authorities. Describes her mother being beaten by a brigadier for taking grain stalks from a field. Describes her mother’s and sister’s death from starvation.

[YouTube]

Stefan Horlatsch

Describes how his mother hid food to feed her family, and the harassment she faced at the hands of the authorities.

[ YouTube]

Oleksandra Jamniuk (nee Leyba)

Describes the collection of corpses from the streets of Kharkiv, where she was attending university. Describes how she was unaware that the Famine was man-made until arriving in Galicia in the late 1930s.

[ YouTube]

[ HolodomorSurvivors.ca]

Stepan Pasicznyk of the indie UK pop band ‘ The Ukrainians’, wrote a song about the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election. Lyrics are available below in both English and Ukrainian, and you can view many more of their videos on YouTube.

[ YKPAIHA.com]

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Sorry can’t embed the video, but from BBC’s newsnight did a three-part series on Britain’s predicted world resource shortage in 2030. On their land portion of the program, they showed how numerous countries are leasing Western Ukraine’s fertile land and what it could mean for the independence of the nation:

You could call it the latest foreign invasion. No tanks this time, but a state-of-the-art agricultural army is on the move.

In large swathes of the country fleets of ultra-modern combine harvesters are bringing in the harvest from new mega farms.

Food security

But it is not Ukrainian money and know-how which is driving this agricultural revolution. It is foreign governments and companies.

Richard Spinks’ company is centred in fertile western Ukraine

The Libyans are negotiating for land here, as are the Russians and others.

Many governments are looking to secure land overseas as a way to ensure the food supply to their country does not fail.

• Go to the site and watch the video

If you woke up from a coma and flipped on the TV, how sure would you be the USSR was dissolved and national sovereignty triumphed?

In the US:

A search engine called the “Knowledge Generation Bureau“, but always plays up to their acronym.

In Canada, I covered this last year but it has returned to the airwaves:

Bonus: For some reason there’s some sort of communist accountant in North Toronto.