Thinking About the Holodomor: Part I

The Holodomor, or the Ukrainian Famine of 1932 and 1933, seems to contain within it the entire 20th century: large-scale suffering and death, endless cruelty, ideological fanaticism, political persecution, willful blindness, Western credulity, and lies as far as the eye can see. Although accounts of this entirely manmade catastrophe were available and widely published at the time, it was not until Robert Conquest’s The Harvest of Sorrow in 1986 that the Holodomor received the exhaustive and clear-eyed treatment it deserved.

via www.lawliberty.org

I visited Ukraine and Poland last summer to see my son. I was taken somewhat aback by how everywhere you looked there was a graveyard, either seen or unseen. It was somewhat depressing. There are valleys in my native West that seem haunted by some old massacre. But this is a more frequent feeling in Eastern and Central Europe.