The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide by Victoria A. Malko

Author:Victoria A. Malko [Malko, Victoria A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781498596794
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2021-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

The genocidal famine in Soviet Ukraine turned into an instrument of the nationality policy. This radically distinguished the situation in Ukraine from that in Kazakhstan, where famine-related losses were also very high. On December 14, 1932, Stalin and Molotov signed a resolution of the TsK VKP(b) and the SNK of the USSR, which demanded “correct Ukrainization” in Soviet Ukraine and other regions densely populated by ethnic Ukrainians throughout the Soviet Union. The document also demanded a struggle against Petliurites and other “counterrevolutionary” elements, who this time were accused of organizing the famine.184 This not only meant the end of the ambiguous policy of “Ukrainization,” but marked the decisive phase of the liquidation of the “Ukraine-centered” potential that was never supposed to revive. As scholars rightfully note, the greatest burden of the genocidal famine was placed on Ukrainian land tillers, who were politically most dangerous and resisted collectivization as much as they could. However, for purely organizational reasons, they could not launch an offensive on the city and become dangerous to the regime. The Stalinist regime used the famine and false stories about those who were responsible for it as a concrete pretext for mass-scale repressive campaigns, purges, and the like.185 The policy of Russification was reversed only in October 1989, when the Ukrainian language was proclaimed the state language of the republic, to lay the foundation for the declaration of state sovereignty and eventual independence of Ukraine in 1991, a reinstatement of independence first proclaimed in 1918 by the Ukrainian National Republic.

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