Taboo Genocide: Holodomor 1933 & the Extermination of Ukraine

By Kris Dietrich

This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis.
It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your story too.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Sep 11, 2015
• ISBN: 9781499056082

Kris Dietrich

Kris Dietrich is a writer and journalist born in NYC and raised in Connecticut. When in 2004 Ukraine burst into the world spotlight he joined protestors of Kiev in the “Orange Revolution”; the overthrow in 2014 of the Yanukoych regime makes TABOO GENOCIDE: HOLODOMOR 1933 & THE EXTERMINATION OF UKRAINE most relevant. After graduating from Yale (Philosophy and Political Science), Kris pursued advanced studies at Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS), in Washington DC. At 24, he led a coalition to restore democracy in Nepal. In 1985 he joined the Editorial Dept. at International Herald Tribune (Paris), where the next year he launched Tech Images Internationales, a leader in the nascent CG animation industry. He returned to his passion for human rights when, in 1996, under the alias Dawn Star of EuroBurmanet – with a million hits a month – to promote freedom and democracy in support of Burmese Nobel Peace laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi against military repression, and staged a world boycott against the French oil company, recounted in his book Total, l’Etat et la Nouvelle Economie (2000). A keen sailor, he lives aboard his 60-foot racing trimaran somewhere in warm and safe waters.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION - HOLODOMOR: DEATH BY FORCED HUNGER 1933

FREUD AND THE DEATH INSTINCT OF CIVILIZATION

THE STORY YOUR TEACHERS NEVER TOLD YOU

THE HORROR, THE SECRETS, THE TABOO

THE CURRENT DEBATE

THE WAR GAME: FROM HOLODOMOR TO HOLOCAUST

FDR: WHAT IS A US PRESIDENT TO DO?

GENOCIDE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO AND THE UKRAINIAN PARLIAMENT

THE HOLODOMOR DEATH TOLL

APRIL 23, 1986: US CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION UKRAINE FAMINE 1932-33

SOVIET PREMIER GORBACHEV CONFESSES HIS SECRETS

PREMIER GORBACHEV RECALLS …HALF THE FAMILY DIED OF HUNGER…

WHO WAS JOSEPH STALIN?

WHEN ONE DIES, IT IS A TRAGEDY. WHEN A MILLION DIE, IT IS A STATISTIC

CHURCHILL: IF HITLER INVADED HELL …

CONSPIRACY: THE EVIL HAND OF OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT SECRECY

THE DEAD TELL NO LIES

HOLODOMOR GENOCIDE FILES: CLASSIFIED OR DECLASSIFIED?

THE 1988 US CONGRESSIONAL COMMISSION

BANKING, GENOCIDE & THE GREAT DEPRESSION

2008 MELTDOWN: BUBBLE TALK FROM WASHINGTON

GOLDMAN SACHS DOING GOD’S WORK

BIG BANKS & THE TOO BIG TO FAIL LIE

FEAR AND SILENCE – FDR AND THE SECRET PRESIDENCY

THE STRANGE FINDINGS OF DR. JAMES MACE

BEHIND CLOSED DOORS – THE STATE DEPARTMENT KNEW

MASS MURDERER AND DICTATOR JOSEPH STALIN

THE USSR AND THE ANGLO-AMERICAN CORPORATE CONSORTIUM

WHEN ARTHUR KOESTLER MOCKED STALIN AND THE PUSSY RIOT HITS PUTIN

STALIN TO PUTIN: OFFICIAL EXTERMINATION

THE COVER-UP TODAY

WILL THERE BE SOUP?

REAL WORLD POLITICS OF GENOCIDE: FROM GULAG TO WORLD WAR

THE ASCENDANCY OF VIKTOR ANDRIIOVYCH YUSHCHENKO

SOVIET RUSSIA UNDER STALIN: MADE BY USA INC.

THE CONSORTIUM BANKERS: AMERICA’S PRESTIGIOUS FAMILIES

HARRIMAN AND MORGAN CREATE THE SOVIET RUSSIAN BANK

THE AMERICANIZATION OF SOVIET INDUSTRY

LEND-LEASE: FDR’S SECRET WEAPON AND LIFE-LINE TO RUSSIA

US RECOGNITION & DOLLARS FOR STALIN

MODERN UKRAINE: FROM REMEMBRANCE TO NATIONAL RESURGENCE

A YOUNG GENERATION SCREWED: ROCK KILLS THE YOUTH REVOLUTION

LIFE AND DEATH IN PUTANIA

THE GREAT GAME OF EMPIRE

THE CONSORTIUM ROAD - WAR PROFITS AT THE BANK

FDR AND THE 1932 CAMPAIGN TO THE PRESIDENCY

PRESIDENT HOOVER AND LENIN’S RUSSIAN FAMINE

… FDR WAITED UNTIL THE ULTIMATE MOMENT TO ENTER THE WAR …

HENRY STIMSON AND THE AMERICAN ELITE

THE SECRET SOCIETY OF THE ANGLO PILGRIMS

THEY SHOOT CANNIBALS, DON’T THEY?

…THEY RAPE THEM ON A COLLECTIVE BASIS…

HOLODOMOR TABOO: A GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY?

WHO REALLY IS BILL PHILLIPS AT STATE ?

ASTOR & THE AMERICAN CULTURE OF BILLIONAIRES

YALE, HARVARD, PRINCETON & THEIR SECRET SOCIETIES

EYE ON THE JAPANESE EMPIRE IN KOREA AND CHINA

THE ENIGMATIC AND STRANGE MR. HOUSE

THE ODD COUPLE: ROOSEVELT AND HIS AMBASSADOR IN MOSCOW

STALIN’S ECONOMIC PLANS & THE GREAT DEPRESSION

TO IMPEACH MELLON & THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

STALIN’S REPRESSION OF THE PEASANTS

ONE LIFE, ONE KOPECK

STALIN AND THE MOSCOW FOREIGN PRESS CORPS

THE STRANGE CASE OF MR. JONES

HITLER, MORGAN & THE INIMITABLE DR. SCHACHT

THE DULLES BOYS

FORD, HARVESTER & RUSSIAN COLLECTIVIZATION

THEN CAME ELECTRICITY & THE AMERICAN TRACTOR

BILL DODD: FDR’S MAN IN BERLIN

BEFORE MORGAN THERE ARE THE ROTHSCHILDS …

GLOBAL WAR: ROCKEFELLER STANDARD OIL FOR STALIN AND HITLER

ALARMING REVELATIONS BY ANTONY SUTTON OF STANFORD UNIVERSITY

GOD, COUNTRY, AND YALE

YALE CONNECTION: THE ORDER OF SKULL & BONES

FROM SKULL & BONES TO A GOVERNMENT BOUGHT BY BIG OIL DOLLARS

THE YALE SPIRIT

ANSON PHELPS STOKES: CHARACTERISTICS OF MOST EMINENT YALE MEN

FAITH

CONSERVATISM

YALE AND THE RULING CLASS

WAR, EDUCATION AND THE NATIONAL ETHOS

YALE & THE STRANGE ROLE OF DANIEL COIT GILMAN (’52 SKULL & BONES)

YALE, THE MOTHER OF COLLEGES

AMERICAN EMPIRE IN THE GREAT GAME

BUT WHAT DID HE EVER KNOW OF ARTICLE 58?

STALIN – MAN OF STEEL

AMERICA’S HOLODOMOR STATE DEPARTMENT & THE FED

WHO WAS CORDELL HULL? WHAT TO DO WITH SUMNER WELLES?

STALIN SENDS HIS NKVD AGENTS TO PENETRATE, SPY AND STEAL

INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER, MORGAN & THE ROCKEFELLERS

HARVESTER, LEGGE AND THE WHEAT MARKETS

HOOVER & ROTHSCHILD: AMERICAN FOOD CZAR OF BOLSHEVIK RUSSIA

THE US, AMERICAN CORPORATIONS AND NAZI WAR PREPARATIONS

THE PILGRIMS SOCIETY

YOU WORK WITH YOU HANDS, WE WORK WITH YOUR MINDS

EUSTACE MULLINS REVEALS SECRETS OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE

TO THE VICTOR GOES THE SPOILS

THE GAME: DECEIT, DENIAL & DECEPTION

OVER FIFTY MILLION DEAD RUSSIANS IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS (BIS)

JONES & MUGGERIDGE BREAK THE BARRIER OF LIES

THE CULTURE OF AMERICAN MYTHOLOGY – SOLZHENITSYN GOES WEST

MORE CONSORTIUM PLAYERS – THE NAZI BROWN BOOK OF WAR CRIMINALS

THE GREAT AMERICAN JEWS: THE SCHIFFS, THE WARBURGS, THE KAHNS …

COL. HOUSE, THE ROTHSCHILDS & THE FED CONNECTION

WHO GOT THE SHARES IN THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK

JACOB SCHIFF AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION

JEWISH CONSORTIUM LINKS

FOR OVER TWO CENTURIES THE ROTHSCHILDS FINANCE THE WORLD

FROM WATERLOO TO THE PRESENT: THE ROTHSCHILD HOLDINGS

AVE HARRIMAN: FROM ROOSEVELT TO KENNEDY, THE DON AT STATE

BERNIE BARUCH WAR TRADE: THE WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD (WIB)

FROM YALE TO NAZI BERLIN AND THE KREMLIN

THE INCREDIBLE REVELATIONS OF BOLSHEVIK RAKOVSKY

THE WARBURGS, BAKERS, MORGANS, SCHIFFS, KUHN LOEB, SCHROEDER & CO.

1930 CRACKDOWN OUT OF CONTROL

THE WASHINGTON CFR MEN PLAY THE GAME

FROM ATOMIC WAR TO COLD WAR

THE HOLODOMOR – A CLASSIFIED GOVERNMENT SECRET

ODD COUPLE: THE SOVIET GULAG & THE AMERICAN DREAM

CONGRESSMAN MCFADDEN DENOUNCES TREASON BY THE FED

HOLODOMOR, SOVIET RECOGNITION AND THE 1932 BANK CRISIS

HE’S A SON OF A BITCH, BUT HE’S OUR SON OF A BITCH

DR. MACE & THE 1987 REPORT ON THE COLLABORATION OF US OFFICIALS

WHO MAKES THE NEWS?

THE AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION – THE AIC

MANCHURIA & THE CONSORTIUM’S ADVENTURE IN THE FAR EAST

HARRIMAN, WALKER, BUSH & THE SOVIET’S RUSKOMBANK

CONSORTIUM BANKERS AND THE BOLSHEVIKS

PAUL WARBURG AND HIS FAVORITE BANKERS

THE MORGAN MAN & HITLER’S BANKER – H. HORACE GREELEY SCHACHT

TOM WATSON AND IBM INVEST BIG IN HITLER AND NAZI GERMAN FASCISM

1933 WHEN HITLER COMES TO POWER IN BERLIN

DESPERATE YEARS IN DEPRESSION AMERICA

CONSORTIUM MEN IN THE WALL STREET MARKET CRASH BOOM FIRE SALE

HOOVER, STIMSON, MORGAN & THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL CONNECTION

DELANO, ROOSEVELT, RUSSELL & THE AMERICAN OPIUM CHINA TRADERS

SOVIET GRAIN SHIPMENTS AND FARM COLLECTIVIZATION

DEFEAT IS ONE THING, DISGRACE IS ANOTHER

BARBAROSSA: HITLER’S DOOM IN THE EAST

AMERICA’S SECRET AGENT IN BERLIN

BEST TANK IN THE WORLD – THE SOVIET T-34

FDR’S $ LEND-LEASE GIVE-A-WAY TO STALIN: A DREAM BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL

THIS IS NO PEACE; THIS IS ONLY A TRUCE FOR TWENTY YEARS

STRANGE CONNECTIONS: SOVIET RUSSIA AND ENGLAND’S PILGRIMS SOCIETY

WHO WAS CHARLES G. DAWES? AND OWEN D. YOUNG?

THE YALE PROFESSOR WONDERS, WAS IT GENOCIDE?

THE HISTORY OF AN UNDERWORLD, SAYS LONDON’S RUSSIAN SCHOLAR

WHAT WHITING WILLIAMS TELLS AMBASSADOR DODD

WHY HAS THE HISTORY BEEN BLACKED OUT?

FORD AND HIS FORDSON: INDUSTRY MIRACLE MAKER SAYS JOHN REED

THE ARA: FOOD IS A WEAPON

FROM LENIN AND TROTSKY TO HOOVER AND HARRIMAN …

ALL THE CZARIST EMPIRE’S TREASURES ARE STORED HERE …

TO SAVE RUSSIA : A MONOPOLY FOR THE COMMUNISTS AND THE CAPITALISTS

AND THE RUSSIANS COMES TO YALE

STALIN AND HIS FAVORITE WRITERS

BEHIND THE URALS: THE ‘AMERIKANKA’ AT MAGNITOGORSK

FDR 1933: THE ONLY THING WE HAVE TO FEAR IS FEAR ITSELF

IN 1931 WHISTLE-BLOWER GARETH JONES SETS HIS EYE ON POLAND

WHAT THE US AMBASSADOR IN BERLIN FINDS OUT – THE EXPERIMENT

MORGAN’S AMAZING DWIGHT WHITNEY MORROW

THE SUMMER OF 1930: MORE FAMINE REPORTS INFORM THE WEST

MORE REPORTS FROM US OBSERVERS IN RIGA

HUGHESOVKA !! – WELSHMAN GARETH JONES RETURNS TO UKRAINE 1930

COLLECTIVIZATION: THE MOST BRUTAL IN THE WORLD

PARES AND JONES: HIS MENTOR KNEW HIM WELL BUT HOW WELL DID HE?

PROPAGANDA PUNDITS: LEE, BERNAYS, PAGE, GOEBBELS & CO.

POPULATION AND STARVATION: THE MALTUS EQUATION

THE HOLODOMOR HEINZE COMPANY CONNECTION

LORD MILNER’S ROUND TABLE MEN & LORD ROTHSCHILD

YOU MAY BE A SPY…

THE RISE OF FASCISM IN EUROPE: DOCTRINE OF THE 20TH CENTURY

THE DULLES BROTHERS & THE CONSORTIUM NAZI CONNECTIONS

STIMSON AND HIS BOYS AT STATE

WHAT KHRUSHCHEV KNEW

GARETH JONES AND JACK HEINZE ENCOUNTER THE FAMINE

THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN? IT’S ALL LIES, LIES, LIES!

1931: THE STATE DEPARTMENT RUSSIA WATCHERS

THE MANCHURIAN PROBLEM WORSENS

THE GERMAN-AUSTRIAN BANKING CRISIS SHAKES WASHINGTON

INSIDE THE HOOVER - STIMSON WHITE HOUSE

STIMSON IN EUROPE JULY 1931

WASHINGTON FALL 1931

HOW STIMSON & THE CONSORTIUM CONCEAL MORGAN INVESTMENT IN JAPAN

STIMSON FACES JAPANESE ADVANCE: I REACHED THE END OF MY TETHER…

UKRAINE IN FAMINE LATE 1931

Introduction - HOLODOMOR: DEATH BY FORCED HUNGER 1933

This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis.

It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your story too.

What am I to say to you? What?

The spirit of Tchekov, and Doestoevsky and Solzhenitsyn weigh heavy on this tale of more masterly tales preserved by great writers, so many who perished here; Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Gorky, Bulgakov … Yes! But Pasternak lived through it all. He survived! Stalin didn’t kill him! He didn’t preserve him to make him squirm.

Please read, and live! I am in a hurry. It is very cold outside and the fire is burning…

We all live and share it every day of our lives. It is embedded deep in our hearts and minds and in our cultures and history. In one way or another, this story is in us all.

And yet almost nobody knows about it. It was taboo. It was a story not to be told. Even in hushed whispers and lowered eyes an utterance of the truth was strictly forbidden, and maybe get you killed. Now reader, hold on, you have to surf a little so stay on the board…

What would you think if someone told you they knew rich people in a country investing in a foreign war killing millions of people mostly young and untrained men and at the last minute that country joined the great war to win it, all the while the rich people who occupied the government and owned the factories and businesses of national economy now make a killing in war profits to keep the industrial machine war going, then when they are good and ready lead a million poor souls shipping them far overseas where ten percent of them are killed, this over 100,000 of the young men are dead and many thousands more are wounded and maimed for life, and then these same rich men of big corporations and banks who sold the same people and their families paper called Liberty Bonds urging them with great national demonstrations and rallies and advertising with movie star celebrities and banking and business leaders walking hand in hand with government officials and newspapers creating a national war frenzy telling the people they must take a financial stake in the war and make a profit too, so the bankers float and syndicate billions of dollars in war loans and in the chaos of war and destruction these same men stage a coup to take down the largest and richest empire in the world in a strange and distant land, a great power speaking a foreign language among the greatest powers in the world and with the fastest accelerating modern economy yet a great nation of peasants and the bread-basket of Europe, – and these same men who sent the young men to die and urged their families to buy a stake in the war now destroy that foreign empire in their quest for global dominance in the future which they do so successfully killing the royal family of four young daughters and a little boy crown prince, backing a small group of cut-throat penniless wretched professional revolutionaries, bandits and thieves who slaughter a cultured ruling class aristocracy evolved over centuries and these same ideological bandits lead an illiterate rag-tag army promising peace, land and food; then these same people invest in a one-party dictatorship enslaving 160 million people under a system of slave labor and terror, starving millions at the point of bayonet and filling concentration labor camps and massive man-made famine killing some ten million of the best farmers in the land and turn the screws so tight until it is time to win another world war, and this time the same rich people stay out of the war but promise food and aid to the dictatorship bleeding itself to death for claiming victory for themselves, but it is really only a victory of its foreign masters who own the banks and corporations with their politicians that invest in the war factories and the slave dictatorship while their own country is wallowing for years in a terrible economic depression but now having come out of the second war again richer than ever in the entire history of the world, and in fact just so that the population of the foreign rich masters could prosper while these rich masters themselves control the world populations and resources when the dictatorship is used to sustain a world ideology keeping the entire world populations transfixed in a state of paralysis of terror and fear so that the rich masters get even more rich and their population enjoys mindless prosperity all the while the slave population of the dictatorship suffers a most terrible fate as it falls deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit of terror and fear and economic bankruptcy until three generations later their false state collapses. Essentially this is what really happened in the rise and fall of the Soviet Russia and the emergence of the American global empire. But who were these rich and powerful people and how did they do all these terrible things and get away with it and even become the envy of them all, these downtrodden and oppressed peoples of the world who marvel at them singing and dancing in the name of Democracy and their national pursuit of happiness and freedom?

In Soviet Russia to speak about it meant prison. Likely death. In America to mention it would leave people thinking the subject is too far-fetched to be taken seriously. It seemed too incredible to be believed and people didn’t know what it meant or how to think about it. Both countries were highly brainwashed and suspicious while living in fear though the cultural climate was markedly different then and during the Cold War years leading a half century later to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

To borrow a quote from England’s fearless and unflappable Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a principal actor in this ethos of the World War Two, the 1933 Holodomor Terror-Famine in the Ukraine holds a special place in the heroic and tragic of wartime Russia, always that inscrutable riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

In fact, as the story unfolds it becomes evident that the Holodomor is a vital link compelling Hitler to launch his invasion plan Barbarossa to seize the fertile fields of wheat of the Ukraine (after the spring sowing in 1941) and compelled Roosevelt to make his fatal pact with Stalin beginning officially in 1933, already a one-man cult in the Communist Party hierarchy of the ramshackle rattletrap of Soviet Russia, a year after the 15th anniversary of the Revolution led by Lenin eternally asleep in the Kremlin.

One of the most strange aspects of US government relations towards the USSR prior to the outbreak of World War II is that neither Hoover, nor Stimson nor FDR in these years of the twenties and early thirties of US economic and technological trade collaboration with the Soviets and for the Holodomor years Stalin seldom and very rarely is ever the subject of State Department memoranda nor is Stalin cited in Stimson’s personal diary as I was able to determine for this book during close to a decade of research. Thousands of skilled American workers and engineers lived in the Soviet Union at this time building the new Soviet Socialist dictatorship.

An evil silence pervaded throughout the USSR that shrouded Russian society in secrecy. In both countries of powerful myths and icons the Holodomor story seems to assume a dimension even more evil with time. That is, until now.

Having intercepted German wire transmissions and warned Stalin that Hitler’s invasion is imminent, on the same day he struck June 22, 1941 Churchill in a national radio broadcast declares A wonderful story is unfolding before our eyes. How it will end we are not allowed to know. But on both sides of the Atlantic we all feel, I repeat, all, that we are a part of it, that our future and that of many generations is at stake. We are sure that the character of human society will be shaped by the resolves we take and the deeds we do.

On the day of invasion Churchill tells the world, This is no class war, but a war in which the whole British Empire and Commonwealth of Nations is engaged without distinction of race, creed or party … if Hitler imagines that his attack on Soviet Russia will cause the slightest division of aims or slackening of effort in the great Democracies who are resolved upon his doom, he is woefully mistaken. On the contrary, we shall be fortified and encouraged in our efforts to rescue mankind from his tyranny. Before the speech is delivered his personal secretary recalls how Churchill had once said that he had sought to strangle in its cradle Bolshevism, Churchill now quips, If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons. (Alliance with Russia, radio broadcast, June 22, 1941, Never Give In!, ed. Winston S. Churchill, NY: Hyperion, 2003)

With America still on the sidelines CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow on the same day of the invasion gave his radio broadcast with the opener that made him famous This is London. In his low gruff voice Ed Murrow said, As you know, the Prime Minister made a broadcast this evening. Never before has he been so violent in his denunciation of Hitler, whom he termed a bloodthirsty guttersnipe. Mr. Churchill made a solemn prophecy that there would be misery and famine without equal in history; India and China were next on the Nazi list. He said a thousand million more human beings were menaced. The Prime Minister brought all his oratorical power to the appeal for aid to the Soviet Union, which he has always hated– and still does. … What he implied was that the Russians, after all, are human but the Germans aren’t. Russia’s danger, he said, is our danger. Then Murrow adds a recent broadcast statement to America by Churchill, ‘But time is short’. If Russia is beaten quickly and decisively, time will be much shorter. (In Search of Light, The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow 1938-61, Ed. with Intro. by Edward Bliss, Jr., NY: Knopf, 1967, 47-8)

Our story unfolded not long ago during the lives of our parents and their parents in a far away land of buttermilk and honey, happy robust maidens and strong men of the earth, pagan spirits and Christian saints. Fertile farmland enriched by centuries of toil, golden wheat fields in bloom and tall birch forests suddenly poured rivers of blood into the Dnieper River as it flows from the north down into the Black Sea.

We return to a hidden and murky past to find behind dark clouds, sealed vaults and hushed voices the story brought to light of the creation of the world we all inherited and live every day of our lives. As it emerged with new industrial technologies and a capacity for war more violent than ever before seen or imagined by the ordinary illiterate man, this world was heralded the modern civilization or "Brave New World’ and took over the landscape with a bold new mythology and borders drawn by prominent generals, bankers and politicians of the era. Little did I know when in my senior year at prep school I was honored with the History Prize –, a classic encyclopedia of mythology, that it would guide me through the illusions and signs of the Cold War. More appropriate perhaps a book on rhetoric, but we already had Wilson’s speeches for that; a few years at Yale under phenomenology professor Edward S. Casey recently at Stony Brook University Manhattan began to make sense of it all.

H. G. Wells along with many great writers both contemporary and past, including George Bernard Shaw, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and many others are witness and in some cases even enthusiastic participants as the fascist horror all fell into place during the years of peace and world war promising happiness, prosperity and freedom to the children and future generations after years of terrible cruelty and unspeakable crimes. Never mind. I know what I know and will tell you as it is for you to know the soul of truth in the story that has never been told before as we can know it in our time.

What did we learn?

War is a dirty business. War is good business. Genocide works. Cui bono? To understand it better just remember what the Romans said: Who benefits?

Only a few years ago far from Washington and on the opposite side of the world the former President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko declared November 21 a day of national mourning in honor of ten million victims of Terror-Famine of the Ukraine known as the Holodomor (Death by Hunger in Ukrainian pronounced with a G as in "Golo). In fact, as terrible as it really was maybe the death toll was as high as 14.5 million as declared by former Soviet Premier Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Impossible? Unthinkable? Or, perhaps the true death figure is between three and six million. Or, as claimed from six to eleven million lives, depending on how the estimates are made". (Martin Malia, The Soviet Tragedy, A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, NY: Free Press-Macmillan, 1994, 1999; Orest Subtelny, Ukraine, A History, Univ. of Toronto Press, 1988, 1994, 415)

The exact number will probably not ever be known. Yet, the Washington-Moscow story of the Holodomor of the 1932-34 years has never been told. That too compounds the shocking truth of regenerated numbers if you think about it. Still, as we untangle the knot of censorship and historical disinformation we find the real story of Genocide in Ukraine embedded in the greater 1933-45 war period of extraordinary Machiavellian strategic political and financial intrigue resulting in the destruction of lives and property reaching epic proportions encompassing the two World Wars. Ukraine was the most ravaged survivor of a doomed planet calling out for help in their most dire time of need.

FREUD AND THE DEATH INSTINCT OF CIVILIZATION

The Nazi menace tears asunder the work and family of Sigmund Freud. Renowned Austrian psychoanalyst Freud near the end of his life during this time of Nazi persecution of Jews and non-Aryans considered incompatible with German civilization finally must face the mystery and horror of man’s Fate as an exterminator of his own species with an unmitigated destiny doomed by an aggressive will to power and sustained by a lust for the most powerful weapons of destruction. The confrontation of Western man with the others does not leave him unaffected nor does he escape untouched by this clash of traditions. On the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War literally at the end of his rope Freud is persuaded by his daughter Anna to abandon his precious library and flee the Nazi takeover of Vienna. He is, he declares, a godless Jew who painfully must forsake any role as prophet. Ultimately, and no less ironic to our story, Freud is saved from the death camps by Roosevelt and his intermediaries and escapes from Europe in the darkness on a night train and ship across the Channel to safety in England where soon thereafter in exile he dies safe and free.

Freud seriously ponders what kind of Europe his seven grandchildren would inherit. During the rise of fascism he dreads the lapse of freedom. But who can foresee the prospects and the outcome? The question begs to be answered by us all.

We learn how Freud dreads the repressive and brutal tyrants and faces the challenging questions of responsibility of moral choice living under conditions of fascism. His seminal work Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), – reader, we are precisely in our own most relevant time here, – should be perceived as a final testament to his investigation of the human conflict between Eros and Death. Remember Freud is the leading psychoanalyst in the West, he invented the practice! – to investigate myths and symbols in the alien worlds of the unconscious to grasp the dynamism of man’s destructive psyche impelled by historical forces other than those which have shaped the history of Western world. (M. Eliade, Myths Dreams, and Mysteries, 10)

My courage sinks to stand up before my fellow humans as a prophet, Freud declares, and I bow before their reproach that I do not know how to bring them consolation – for that is fundamentally what they all demand, the wildest revolutionaries no less passionately than the most conformist pious believers. When Freud wrote this a maddening arms race and incessant drive of modern progress and technological innovation did not hold out much promise for the future. With less than a decade to live and with mankind now facing nearly insurmountable hurdles, he sighed, Men have now gone so far in the mastery of natural forces that with their help they could easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this, hence a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness, their mood of anxiety. (Peter Gay, Freud: A Life For Our Time, NY: Norton, 1988, 551-2)

Freud harbored no illusions in the aspirations for the ideal New Proletarian Man (and Woman) construed by the Soviet Russia’s supreme Dictator and the Communist Party, vanguard of the working class and the protagonist of history. I can recognize its psychological presupposition as an untenable illusion. As he understood the predicament of civilized humanity when he argues that aggression was not created by property, and could not be controlled by it. Aggression, unfortunately, is a peculiar pleasure and man is not inclined to reject it. They do not feel comfortable without it,

Freud declares. A compulsion he describes as the narcissism of small differences appears to spur men to find certain pleasure in persecuting and torturing others. In another comment he reflects, all the massacres of Jews in the Middle Ages were not enough to make that age more peaceful and more secure for their Christian comrades. (P. Gay, Freud, 549)

THE STORY YOUR TEACHERS NEVER TOLD YOU

This is a story your teachers never told you in high school or college. Survivors of Ukraine dispersed living around the world and in their Motherland still whisper chilling memories to their children of the time when they were hungry, sick with bloated bellies, without bread and bodies everywhere. Most of what is taught in American schools about geopolitical history of the last few generations is either a ton of crap to hide the dirt or shrewdly deceptive and misguiding. Computer technology today will aid the avid reader find facts to help navigate an intelligible course through the rocky shoals of treacherous deception and deep uncharted waters. Under all that there are glimmers of the truth like the lotus flower worshiped because it rises above all the mud. From Buddha to Jesus on the cross and Shakespeare they would tell you the same in a proverb.

In Russia the Holodomor is for the most part ignored or forgotten; from Hollywood to New York City the Holodomor truth is overshadowed with an apparently incessant daily news stream of the Jewish Holocaust with no sign of it waning for the future.

And yet this predecessor of the Holocaust was even more horrific preceded the Holocaust by only a few years. There was never a Nuremberg Judgment to condemn it or exorcise the guilt of a Humanity betrayed by Holodomor Genocide perpetuated on an innocent population by Stalin and his world. It was our world, too, torn asunder in a clash of forces, good and evil deeds, and, as this book reveals, a world transfixed in collaboration with the West. It happens during the prewar years of peace during the rocking Roaring Twenties and the Great Depression. Your teachers most likely never knew about the evil bleak reality shadowed behind the dark clouds. They didn’t want to know the truth until it was too late. It was and has always been taboo. The Consortium had arranged the agenda especially before Genocide ever became a crime in violation of the laws of Humanity in the aftermath of World War II in the Nuremberg Judgment trials. Since it was chartered in 1948, the United Nations, another instrument of Consortium work or order the world, has been primarily responsible for the selective processing to prosecute certain nefarious crimes against humanity.

It still is taboo, off the history map in the political lexicon. Rather, it was all taboo but that is now changing today with the transparency accelerated by the Internet and Wikileaks or Facebook and U-tube type organizations with video blogs and news sharing in an endlessly continuous streaming of data files.

Nor did your teachers tell you about the details of American engineers and technicians, thousands of American specialists sent to Russia in the 1928-1934 years of the Five-Year Plans to modernize the Soviet economy during the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations (1928-1945). With their complicit knowledge a small but incredibly wealthy and powerful group of Anglo-American political and industrial leaders secretly helped build the Communist state of terror under Stalin. This clique with a power center based in Washington and led by Roosevelt and his men then rapidly supplied Stalin with everything he needed to slow Hitler’s race to Moscow across Ukraine and the Eastern Front to save Europe and the West from what Churchill called the curse of Hitler for the survival of Christian civilization from certain destruction and domination by the German Nazi military machine.

THE HORROR, THE SECRETS, THE TABOO

No pictures of Consortium communist horror appear in Time or Life created and owned by Henry Luce and his Skull and Bones chums from Yale. No photos of the GULAG (Glavnoye Upravleniye Lagerey), the vast administrative network of prisons and forced labor concentration camps headed by Yagoda of the OGPU secret police when its established in 1930 in every province stretching all across the Soviet Union. Only happy smiling faces of strong young peasants and workers in the fields and factories were shown in the country and abroad. The Soviet Russians knew but were silenced by the mortal fear of death embedded in their lives Soviet justice enforced by Stalin’s executioners and a nation of paranoid informers so far remote from the comprehension of the West. And for the most part Soviet records are unreliable or unavailable, either lost, non-existent or kept totally secret. And, unfortunately, that practice of secret government is not alien to America with its millions of newly classified documents kept under lock and key every year and denying the people their right to know First Amendment Constitutional Rights.

The Soviet Union keeps their secrets. So does England and America. The business of the Consortium in the Soviet Union was considered by them to be their private business as it is today. The scions of American wealth and power with their links in London and Paris are at the center of this money and influence gang of world centralized banks, global corporate industry and government. It is a natural extension of colonial power by the masters that be– the Rothschilds, DuPonts, Mellons, Morgans, Harrimans, Rockefellers and their kind.

A taboos concealing the truth kept secret by unlawful power protecting falsehoods and corruption in democratic and totalitarian dictatorship lose their grip over public awareness; the internet has pushed societies forward beyond the condition of what the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko in a reference in 1974 to dissident Soviet writer Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn and the doomed poet Osip Mandelstam call living the lie of silence.

The taboo is exposed in controversy. In the past Time-Life publisher Henry Luce and various Consortium servants in the press trumpeted the wonders of Soviet progress, perpetuating the American war mythology in the thirties of Soviet communism and American democracy while the secret truth remained concealed in classified government papers and various other scattered sources. This is the story about what really happened in a planned and systematic extermination by Stalin of millions of Ukrainians, men women and children during the peak of the 1933 Holodomor and the Consortium cover-up leading to World War II and the Soviet strategic alliance with the West between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin.

(*Note. One of the best known Russian Soviet poets in the 1950’s and 1960’s, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko, born to a peasant family in Siberia in July 1931 was of mixed Russian, Ukrainian and Tartar heritage. His family is exiled after the 1881 assassination of Emperor Alexander II. His early poem So mnoyu chto-to proiskhodt / Something is happening to me becomes a very popular song; praised by Pasternak, Sandburg and Frost; his most famous poem, Babi Yar, denounced Soviet distortion of the Nazi massacre of the Jews in Kiev September 1941. Also a film director of prolific talent Yevtushenko is made an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, in 1987, and two years later while backing Gorbachev’s perestroika reforms he’s elected as a representative for Kharkov in the Soviet Parliament. Yevtushenko is not without literary and social critics, rebuked as a false dissident and collaborator. Anatoly Kudryavitsky (A Night in the Nabokov Hotel) considers him more a naughty child of the regime than a leader of protest against the totalitarian regime. Yevtushenko even maligns Boris Pasternak’s widow, Olga Ivinskaya imprisoned on bogus charges of foreign currency violations. And he sneers that "Doctor Zhivago is not worth publishing in the Soviet Union". Soon after her release from prison poet Irina Ratushinskaya dismisses Yevtushenko as an official poet; novelist Vasily Aksionov refuses any contact. This is a tumultuous moment in Ukraine’s national history, and Dr. James Mace in Kiev makes headlines rekindling Soviet responsibility for the Holodomor Terror-Famine.

The consequences of the Holodomor are far reaching then and now. Don’t kid yourself and believe otherwise. Dictatorships are potent rivals. Great superpowers make for even greater dictatorships. Dictatorships rule. Communist China and Putin’s Russia are ominous adversaries for the United States in any future world conflict. Free-thinking democracies are burdensome with so many institutions difficult to manage and lengthy legislative and judicial processes. Of course Bush proved that the country could be easily pushed into line to support the Home Land Security Patriot Act and the Iraq War with its bogus allegations of weapons of mass destruction. American presidents know well that it requires special Executive War powers to fight foreign wars and a vote by Congress. Dictatorships don’t require bi-partisan endorsements. There are even people living in the United States who believe passionately that America is no longer a healthy and pluralistic democracy, but instead a land spoiled by the seeds of industrial military dictatorship.

When people don’t have enough to eat after a time they will starve and die. They lose the ability to live. That will always be a human tragedy. When those same people live in a land of fertile soil with abundant grain and wheat harvests and work hard every day tilling the rich soil that nurtures them and protects their families and then one day that food is taken away from the people who work on the land to plant cut and collect the harvest as they have done for centuries and many people die the tragedy is worse. The authorities with machine guns and bayonets come again and take away all the seed and villagers and leave villages barren and empty and the tragedy is worse than ever. Yet when millions die the tragedy is epic. Despite all reservations it did occur.

When the starvation is man-made and caused by political expediency it is a crime against Humanity. And when the murder of the people is a deliberate act of extermination by careful selection and the people are of a certain biological or national origin this criminal act against Humanity is called Genocide. (I prefer using the capital G when referring to this horror of all horrors known to man.) This was the reality of the Holodomor in Soviet Ukraine 1933. It is an epic story about the two most powerful nations to emerge in the East and the West in a world of shifting Empire and wealth gone amok with Fascism and greed. (We also might omit the use of the capital letter F but won’t for other reasons than not to be redundant.)

What would you do if you discovered that your friend was a descendant of a Consortium family who not only knew about the famine in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine but was heavily invested in it? Does it raise serious questions of morality relevant to society today? Murder is committed in the name of a God or ideology or merely the act to serve a higher purpose. For America, this is a real dilemma that requires focus and context for a new generation of Ukrainians in search of national identity after its independence from Russia in 1991 as well as in terms of defining its relations with nations and peoples of the world. It isn’t a small gesture for President Barak Obama to urge that America and Russia reboot relations.

But what does this mean really?

This book hopes to help you understand the dilemma of the paradox as is evident when democracy is used as a tool of fascism to control the free world and render people powerless and without a clear voice of resistance. Unfortunately, that trend still seems absolutely unchanged today magnified by an ever greater crescendo of the democracy debate rhetoric that obfuscates the real issues of who and which institutions and corporations control wealth and power and what they are doing with it.

In short, the Ukrainian Genocide of the Holodomor is a most remarkable story. In the natural course of events no one could possibly tell it completely long after the pain and suffering of death is gone with the dead. Yet truth has its own mysterious way of revealing secrets long lost and hidden from view. In a strange way the revelation may be a sort of recovery for both the victims and the survivors. To hear and see the truth that has eluded the general public for generations the writer has resorted to original sources and documented works to unearth buried lies.

The Holodomor remains an ever-present and frightening truth, and ever more so if people do nothing to neither acknowledge it nor ask questions about such an event ever occurring again in the future. Much research remains to be done to reveal more of the truth of what happened and find records of those millions of people lost with families and entire villages annihilated. As we see with resistance from Moscow so too within the operatives and institutions of the Consortium is this true.

Powerful financial, economic, political and social organizations inside and outside of government do not readily reveal their secrets. It is your responsibility, if you care about your freedom and your life, to seek the truth and do what you can to preserve it and make life worth living. To find a good map through life may help you find peace and happiness, and not get lost in a bad logic such as the logic that promoted and condoned a Terror-Famine with all the consequential suffering and killing of millions of lives by a logic secret and unbridled corporate greed, fascism and the betrayal of democratic ideals, government corruption, massive death and despair. In the Great Game of post-colonial Empire and ruthless capitalism Genocide was more than a by-product; it was both a strategic process of practical utility for an end result with still greater consequences for the Holocaust and the Second World War.

THE CURRENT DEBATE

The current debate surrounding issues of the Holodomor is in need of serious historical correction. The reality of Consortium intrigue with the Kremlin* illuminates the reasons why for so long the story of Stalin’s terror against the peasants in the Ukraine did not even merit the status of a detail in American history books. Disgraced New York Times and Pulitzer Prize reporter Walter Duranty reduced the killing of millions of Ukrainians to no more significance than a mere incident of history. During the Stalinist era it was intended to be effaced from human memory. (*The Old Square Staraya Ploshchad in Moscow, site of the headquarters of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the center of Russian political authority.)

The 1932-33 Holodomor was deleted from official history but it could not be erased from the collective memory. The first step in liquidation of a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was, writes Czech author Milan Kundera about life under communist dictatorship in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.

This is a history with a perspective where even the most backward, as in uneducated, and innocent individual of a forgotten country weighs in the balance with a significance also as potent as the terror and evil that crept out of the depths of a complex modern world, and which was an undeniable part of the collective history of the Ukraine, the Soviet Union, the United States. It was then, and remains today, a world order of nations, and a claim on the sake of Humanity whatever that meant or was appeared to be.

Likewise, any responsible review of the Holodomor must ask how Americans, for the most part considered widely as warm-hearted, generous, and loving people noted for their common sense as once observed the English-born American revolutionary patriot, Thomas Paine, were deprived of information which might otherwise have compelled them to pressure their leaders in Washington to aid the Ukraine and alter the course of history driving them with an industrial pace akin to madness over the edge to the death, horror and flames of yet another World War. Currently as we go to press the most recent leaks and revelations by former National Security Agency employee Edward Snowdon blanket the world media as he warns Americans and the world of the massive unprecedented deprivation and abuse of American privacy and civil rights by government spying and the alleged illegal and unauthorized misuse of technology. (Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, NY: HarperCollins, 1978)

But if war really is good and dirty business, and if Genocide really does work, then how did it work?

Are the masses really just idiots and fodder for political men in power to do away with as they please like sheep sent to the slaughter? And in particular, how did the Holodomor play into the hands of the all-empowered Machiavellians? Moreover, the perpetrators of Genocide always deny it ever happened even when proven guilty by an international tribunal of justice in a court of law in the context of a Crime Against Humanity. And that too, given the scope of the mechanics of international preparations and calculations for war even in the advent of possible prevention, or provocation, raises further the complexity of the issues leading to war itself as genocidal by nature in the arrangements for power and dominance. Defenders of freedom are difficultly perceived as perpetrators of such outrageous immoral monstrosities.

An excellent historian and storyteller, foreign correspondent and editor of Britain’s Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph Max Hastings writes in Inferno (Knopf 2011) that following of the 1939 German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact Hitler was allowed to see Stalin’s war preparations from manufacturing plants far deep inside Russia, even in Siberia. When a German military intelligence report arrived on his desk, Hitler tells his generals, Now you see how far these people have already got. We must strike at once. The British World War II historian and author of some 20 books Max Hastings describes the genocidal strategy of Hitler’s Wehrmacht killing machine: The destruction of Bolshevism and the enslavement of the Soviet Union’s vast population were core objectives of Nazism, flagged in Hitler’s speeches and writings since the 1920’s. Overlaid on them was the desire to appropriate Russia’s enormous natural resources.

But Hitler is already too late. Hitler compounds one mistake after another on his mad path to war. He blindly misconstrues the White House engagement with Stalin, certainly one of his most fatal strategic blunders. For over three decades Stalin is duped by his own Bolshevik-Soviet ruse cast over the empire; the leader himself is duped by an elaborate communist propaganda megalopolis of Kremlin power and dogma that holds bourgeois capitalists in contempt for inflicting Armageddon against the proletarian masses.

In as much as Stalin believes that the Non-Aggression Pact will hold Hitler back from launching an attack, Hitler believes that the America President will let both England and Russia fall in his hand rather than risk the spread of international communism infect Europe and enslave the world. From the beginning, hindered by hatred and ambition, Hitler is doomed. Many of his countrymen know it. But already there are too many Nazis everywhere in Europe. The German invasion will tear open such a deep visceral wound only an unconditional and overwhelming Russian victory could heal and leave a leave a deep scar marked by the Iron Curtain and Berlin Wall.

Ukrainians played the primary role in the Red Army Soviet victory. On the website of Holodomor historian Andrew Gregorovich spotlights how the Ukrainian experience unlike the Russian glory and the Jewish Holocaust has passed virtually unrecognized by western and Russian war historians. He observed how no English language history is available to recall the sacrifice, pain, and terror of the suffering of the Ukrainian nation in the Great Patriotic War as Stalin preferred it to be known as it unified all the ethnic peoples in a tidal surge of humanity to save Mother Russia. Gregorovich is executive director of the Ukrainian Canadian Research and Documentation Center (UCRD), Toronto, founded in 1982. In 1984 the UCRD produced the award-winning film Harvest of Despair by director Slavko Nowytski.

Nor has there been an accounting of the priceless cultural treasures of architecture of Ukraine, world art and literature destroyed and looted.

In the Patriotic War Ukraine lost about ten million people or, one out of four of its sons and daughters. We can only wonder what beauty, genius, and talent was lost to the world as a result of the Nazi German and Soviet annihilation of the Ukrainian people in 1939-1945. About 4.5 million Ukrainians served in the Soviet army (2.5 million were decorated which might mean 2 million combatants perished) with another 1.3 million fighting in militia and partisan units against Germany. Hundreds of thousands served in the guerrilla partisan armies fighting both totalitarian powers, Nazi Germany and Red Soviet Russia. At least 350 Ukrainian generals and marshals served in the Red Army and were responsible for many of the victories at Stalingrad and Leningrad. Apparently, and unknown to most Ukrainians today, Berlin was captured principally by Ukrainian troops; many of the 102,000 killed were Ukrainians who died there and are buried in the Berlin cemetery. That’s close to the number of the entire loss of Americans in the First World War.

Stalin even uses Ukrainian national patriotism in the war instituting the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky medal for the four Ukrainian Front Armies in 1943. They included prominent marshals – the majority of marshals of the USSR were said to be Ukrainians – and generals born in the Ukraine: Marshal Simon Tymoshenko, Marshal Rodion Malinovsky, Marshal Ivan Konev, Marshal Yakiv Fedorenko, Marshal Kiril Maoskalenko, Marshal Serhiy Rudenko, General Andrey Grechko, Marshal Peter Koshoviy, Marshal Petro Leliushenko, Marshal Kliment Voroshilov, Marshal Andrey Yeremenko, General Yakiv Cherevichenko, General Fyodor Kostenko, Col. General Micahael Kirponos, Col. General Andrey Kravchenko, Admiral Mykola Basisty, General Iosif Apanesenko, and Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky. (Figures sourced from Andrew Gregorovich website 1995)

The greatest hero of World War II is of Ukrainian origin, – the brilliant Marshal Georgi Zhukov who signed the German surrender after sacking Berlin. First he taught the Japanese a lesson in their worst military defeat during six months of an undeclared war in 1939; two years later it was the German’s turn to do battle with this great military leader who dared to speak openly to Stalin. Too few Americans in our time know his name or have any idea of the role he played in defeating Nazi fascism and capturing victory and for the free world. Zhukov received the major credit for the Battle of the Dnieper and the capture of Berlin (which the Ukrainian Front Army of Ivan Konev nearly seized before him).

Born in Kaluga, Zhukov’s original family name was Zhuk and his Ukrainian family was from Birky village in the Poltava region of Ukraine according to the information of Zhukov’s relative Varvara Hryshko. On the verge of taking Berlin Zhukov promised Nikita Khrushchev, then Head of the Communist Party of Ukraine, that when he captured Hitler he would first ship him in a cage to Kiev so that Ukraine could see him before Moscow. However, Hitler’s suicide left only the Fuehrer’s charred body to be found by the Soviet Army. The search party into the Nazi command bunker in Berlin which found Hitler’s remains was led by Ukrainian Lt. General Ivan Klimenko. (A. Gregorovich website, 1995, Molod’ Ukrainy 14. X. 1994, 2)

Sixty-five percent of all Allied military deaths British historian Max Hastings writes in this long overdue book Inferno a testimony to the incredible sacrifice of the USSR to saving the free world from Hitler’s Wehrmacht invasion thrust to Moscow through the Ukraine. It was here where the most remarkable battles of World War Two, or as the Soviets call it, The Great Patriotic War, were fought, victories won and ground lost.

It was the war in Russia that defeated Hitler’s Nazi schematic plan for world domination, not the D-Day Normandy Allied invasion or the Liberation of Paris as most Americans have been taught to believe. Compared to the war in Russia Western Europe was a sideshow. Military chiefs in London and Washington understood that well. If Russia fell, England would be doomed and would be forced to wait for isolationist America to help them regain their freedom.

In Overlord, Brutish war historian Max Hastings writes in 1983, debunking what he describes as chauvinistic post-war platitudes and comfortable chauvinistic legends and the astonishing twist of historical record that endures 40 years after the battle. That euphoria of the battle endures even today in America eager to find and remember its heroes as countless books hit the market commemorating D-Day, which may be all well and good yet do not forget, reader, as the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko reminds us in his introduction to the ground-breaking novel by Solzhenitsyn exposing the Soviet reality of the Gulag, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, that Bertolt Brecht once observed that a country which needs heroes is an unfortunate one. Published in 1962 in Novy Mir under the Khrushchev regime, this short novel became an overnight sensation and bestseller in the Soviet Union; rehabilitated in 1956, Solzhenitsyn is then again banned by Khrushchev fearing that he had gone too far; the Gulag Archipelago is suppressed as too dangerous; arrested in 1974 by his successor Brezhnev the next day Solzhenitsyn is expelled to Frankfurt and literally dumped out of Soviet society tossed out of the country.

Max Hastings writes The struggle for Normandy was the decisive western battle of the Second World War, the last moment at which the German army might conceivably have saved Hitler from catastrophe. The post-war generation grew up with the legend of the Allied campaign in 1944-45 as a triumphal progress across Europe, somewhere unrelated to the terrible but misty struggle that had taken place in the east. Today, we can recognize that the Russians made a decisive contribution to the western war by destroying the best of the German army, killing some two million men, before the first Allied soldier stepped ashore on 6 June 1944. It is the fact that the battle for Normandy took place against this background which makes the events of June and July so remarkable. (Max Hastings, Overlord, D-Day, June 6, 1945, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1984, 11; Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Intro., xi, A. I. Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, NY: Signet Classics-Penguin, 1962, 2008 ed.)

British historian Hastings does not want us to misconstrue what was essential to the outcome of the war due to the fact that 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate on the Eastern Front. Mostly all the territories of the Ukraine victimized by Stalin’s Holodomor are revisited by Hitler’s invasion and retreat, the principal battleground ravaged by both armies during four years of fierce engagement between the world’s two most formidable belligerents. Hastings here makes a crucial observation: Between 1941 and 1945, British and American sailors and airmen fought at sea and in the sky, but relatively small numbers of Western Allied ground troops engaged the Axis in North Africa, Italy, Asia and the Pacific. The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths…the United States and Britain 2 percent each … One Russian in four died, against one in twenty British Commonwealth combatants and one in thirty-four American servicemen. Some 3.66 percent of Marines died, compared with 2.5 percent of the Army and 1.5 percent of the Navy." (Max Hastings, Inferno, The World at War, 1939-1945, NY: Knopf, 2011)

For his part, in 1933 when the American president instead extends the olive branch and continued financial and industrial support to Moscow and chooses to ignore and leave to their fate the millions of victims of the Holodomor Genocide, FDR proves himself able as any Machiavellian and as ruthless a warrior President on a path leading inevitably toward world war as his partner in the Kremlin, And yet, distinguished by a unique intellectual and cultural nature he appeared benignly apathetic to his principal adversaries the arch-villain sadist Stalin and the deranged Austrian militarist who resembles a garment salesman more than a Prussian militarist that he could never be. Imagine that! A political man of genteel education and culture in a wheel chair out-maneuvers them both!

Once victory is in view FDR’s concession will be sealed in February 1945 at the Yalta talks in the Crimea. Ever since they both reached their apogee in 1933, it may have been FDR’s most carefully guarded secret to allow Hitler to be led like a dog to believe that the American President would not raise a finger or even blink at the 1933 Ukrainian Genocide. For that matter, why would he be bothered by the German eradication of the communists deprived of their fertile wheat lands in south Russia. Hitler thought it would be perceived in the West as a stroke of brilliance to replace Ukrainian Slavs ruled by the barbarian Russian communist dictator with the cultured German Third Reich already deep in the pockets of the Anglo-American capitalists of the Consortium. Reader, turn to Neil Ascherson’s Black Sea and his edifying account of barbarian lore: Barbarians, by definition, are so-called; they do not consider themselves to be barbarous. … When Blok (‘Yes – we are Scythians. Yes– we are Asiatics, / With slanted and avid eyes… / For the last time come to your senses, old World! To the brotherly feast of work and peace, / For the last time to the bright brotherly feast/ The barbarian lyre calls.’ sic) snatched up the ‘barbarian’ conceit for revolutionary Russia, it had already been well-worn in the service of imperial nationalism, above all in Germany. … The Third Reich hardened this fashion into a full cultural dogma …. (N. Ashcerson, Black Sea, 108-9)

THE WAR GAME: FROM HOLODOMOR TO HOLOCAUST

The genocidal impact of the Holodomor on Ukrainians and Russians was not lost on Hitler alone. In fact, with the entire Nazi fascist organization operating under a specific Aryan racist agenda extermination excelled at mass killing and slaughter of Slavs, Jews and non-Aryan races.

The Ukrainians were doomed long in advance. The Holodomor was just a beginning of the end for what was soon to tear apart their ancient and beloved country. The numbers are terrifying and may seem incredibly unbelievable even to historians and researchers. For most Americans who enjoy the benefits of peaceful isolation while living in a country that was never occupied or invaded apart from perhaps the experience of the American Revolution some 300 years ago, – and the Genocide inflicted on the native Americans –, the death toll defies the imagination unless otherwise experienced.

Reader, please bear in mind that the total military loss in World War II for the USSR alone was 8,668,400 which includes Ukraine, Byelorussia, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Armenia, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tadjikistan and its other republics, according to General M. Moiseyev, Chief of General Staff, USSR Armed forces. Compare the figures and think again about history and the strategy of leaders: Ukraine lost 19 per cent of its population, while Great Britain lost 0.7 percent and the USA lost 0.2 percent. (Andrew Gregorovich, Population Loss by Country WWII, citing Voennoistoricheskiy zhurnal", no. 3, March 1990 cited by Peter G. Tsouras, The Great Patriotic War, 240, A. Gregorovich, Forum Ukrainian Review No. 92, Spring 1995)

From May 1989 after Mikhail Gorbachev opened the first session of the Congress of People’s Soviets, the Russian masses were beginning to speak openly about the mass-murder of the Holodomor that began with Lenin as the prelude of mass-killing under Stalin with the worst yet to come during the Second World War. George Orwell wrote, under the cloud of Katyn and the Nazi death camps, in 1944, ‘Atrocities’ had come to be looked on as synonymous with ‘lies’. Before long the banned books of Solzhenitsyn become bestsellers available in bookshops and libraries. And this is the man who had to dodge GPU agents; then they called themselves NKVD, and after that KGB. And he had to dodge them all, sometimes finding them hiding in