Pope Francis once again turned his thoughts to the long-suffering Ukraine, referring to the victims of the Holodomor and calling it genocide.
“Let us remember the long suffering Ukraine has endured. This Saturday marks the anniversary of the terrible Holodomor genocide in 1932-1933 artificially perpetrated by Stalin. Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and for all Ukrainians, children, women and the elderly, infants, who today are suffering martyrdom of the invaders. summary,” said Pope Francis at the conclusion of the General Audience on Wednesday, November 23.
It's not just Solovyov, it can be said that there is an intense attack by Russians who support the invasion of Ukraine targeting the Holy Father. Since the beginning of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, this is the first time that Russian media and social networks have attacked the Pope. Despite his harsh criticism of Putin's invasion, the Holy Father wanted to maintain the opportunity for dialogue with Russia to seek a ceasefire through diplomatic channels, so he avoided mentioning Putin and Russia. The Russians, on the other hand, did not attack him, and seemed to want to take advantage of him. Even when the Holy Father referred to Patriarch Kirill as Putin's "acolyte boy", there were only a few weak reactions from the Moscow Patriarchate and were quickly extinguished. However, this time is different,
To clarify why the Holy Father uses the word “genocide” as such a heavy word when referring to the Holodomor, we would like to summarize a few key points from the book “Abridged History Of Ukraine”, which means “ A Brief History of Ukraine" by Andrew Gregovich, professor of Ukrainian history.
In the eyes of Russians, Ukrainians are naive people who are easily fooled. Lenin often bestowed on individuals in the Ukrainian communist party, or CPU for short, the title of "hero" and put in their hands many policies that the Russian communists wanted to experiment with in Ukraine before applying them. mass in Russia.
The first experiment took place at the end of 1920: In one day, all enterprises in Ukraine were nationalized and all agricultural products were purchased at a price robbed from the people. These two policies alone caused the famine that lasted for two years 1921 and 1922, which claimed more than one million Ukrainian lives. Russia again hastily corrected the mistake by returning private enterprises and farmers to trade in their products.
On December 30, 1922, the Soviet Union was born, including Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan. Other countries were gradually incorporated after that. In the early days of the Soviet Union, in order not to "shock" the people and to fool the nationalists, Russia allowed the countries to breathe relatively easily on cultural issues. During this period, everywhere heard "Ukrainization" such as Ukraineization of education, Ukraineization of architecture and culture... and Ukrainianization of Orthodoxy.
However, in 1925, Russia appointed Lazar Kaganovich as CPU secretary to bend the Ukrainian people back to the path of assimilation with Russia. Education Minister Oleksander Shumskyi, convicted as a "narrow nationalist - lost his proletarian international stance" was sent to spend the rest of his life in Siberia for re-education. Khwylovyi, the number 2 figure in the party leadership, writer, author of "Away from Moscow" was "sternly warned".
In 1928, Stalin came to power. Kaganovich was called back to Moscow and Stanislav Kosior was appointed general secretary of the CPU. Stalin again experimented with a pent-year economic policy in Ukraine by denouncing “kuklaks” (landlords), intellectuals and priests, especially clerics who participated in the Ukrainianization of Orthodoxy. Millions of families were killed or exiled to Siberia. Communist writer Khwylovyi once praised the regime, opened his eyes, drank poison, and committed suicide. The countryside became a place of mourning with a series of executions of the kuklaks. In that context, the people's dissatisfaction with production combined with a series of stupid and unreasonable directives led to crop failure in some places. However, the famine of 1932-1933 that claimed the lives of 7 million Ukrainians was not due to lack of food, but because the communists collected all the agricultural products and stored them in large warehouses guarded by the army. The population was left to starve as part of the deadliest purge and genocide in human history. After the famine, Stalin immediately drove the Russians to redeploy the population in the ruined fields of Ukraine. This is also part of a plan to dominate Ukraine in the long run. In 1933, Mykola Skrypnyk, the vanguard of the Ukrainian communists, opened his eyes and died by suicide.
After the death of Mykola Skrypnyk, many Ukrainian communists began to wake up and protest against the experimentation of communist policies on Ukrainian soil. However, Stalin did not give them a chance. According to Vasyl Hryshko, during the purge from 1936 to 1938, 99 out of 102 members of the central committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine were executed one after another. In 1938, Nikita Krushchev, with a majority of genuine Russian party members, took over the leadership of the CPU, continuing the craziest Russian experiments on Ukrainian soil.
Look who contemplate to us. It was our country Vietnam that was also the place for the Russians to conduct experiments on policy and weapons that led to a 21-year fraternal war with consequences that persist to this day.
Just hours after Pope Francis mentioned the terrible famine caused by the Russians to exterminate the Ukrainians, the Russian invaders launched a massive attack on our country's energy infrastructure. ta. According to preliminary information, up to 65 Kh-101 cruise missiles were launched, 51 of which were shot down by the Ukrainian Self-Defense Forces.
Residential buildings, thermal power plants, and electrical substations in Kyiv city, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Lviv and Zaporizhzhia regions were affected. At least 7 people were killed in this horrific attack.
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