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dcterms:Date	"2008-10-22"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Commemoration of the Holodomor, the Ukraine artificial famine (1932-1933) (debate)2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20081022.24.3-452"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Józef Pinior2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; AFET (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation for relations with the United States (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand (2007-03-14--2009-07-13)3 member; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; DROI (2007-01-31--2009-07-13)3 member; REGI (2007-09-03--2009-07-13)3 substitute; DEVE (2007-09-03--2009-07-13)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2007-03-15--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Socjaldemokracja Polska (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"Madam President, today the European Parliament is marking the 75 anniversary of the mass famine in Ukraine, one of the greatest crimes against humanity of the 20 century. The famine in Ukraine, the Volga region, Kazakhstan and other parts of the Soviet Union in 1932-1933 was not the result of natural causes, but of Stalin’s system of wielding power. Forced collectivisation of agriculture and fighting against private ownership in the countryside, destruction of the middle classes and private enterprise under a totalitarian dictatorship, violence by the state against farmers, meant defeat, starvation and death in horrifying circumstances for millions of people. The European Union honours the victims of this crime, and salutes those who survived it, the last living witnesses to this tragedy. The great famine affected the Ukrainian people in particular. Stalin’s policy in Ukraine involved, on the one hand, the inhumane conditions of collectivisation and, on the other, the destruction of national culture, churches and repressions against the intelligentsia. Many Ukrainian writers were shot, imprisoned or sent to labour camps during the 1930s. In 1932, the existing writers’ groups were dissolved. Many national cultural figures perished. The (‘Firing-squad Renaissance’) symbolised Ukraine in the 20 century. The mass famine in Ukraine, as well as in other regions of the Soviet Union, is a fundamental research task for historians, political analysts and scholars of totalitarianism. The great famine cannot be the subject of ideological manipulation or other nationalist policies. All archives on the Stalinist system must be opened, and meticulous studies carried out to determine the numbers of the victims, with precise academic descriptions of the causes, the course and the consequences of the famine. Knowing the truth about the past will serve unity, the establishment of democratic culture as a permanent foundation for Europe. I would like to use the occasion of this debate to remember the great works of the Polish emigré, Jerzy Giedroyc, whose published in Paris brought understanding between Poland and Ukraine. I would like to hold up the Ukrainian language anthology published in in 1957 concerning the persecution of Ukrainian writers which was edited by Lavrinenko, and the Polish-Ukrainian chronicles from 1952 written by Professor Bohdan Osadchuk in the same journal, to the European Parliament as an example of Europe working together to overcome historical fatalism, and to create agreement between the nations regarding a future democratic community."@en1
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