The recent international marketing insert for Ukraine references the appalling horror of the Soviet-orchestrated famine of 1933 (A Memorial in D.C. Will Commemorate the Victims of the Famine in Ukraine February 1). This malevolent milestone of Josef Stalin's ruthless cruelty is relatively unknown here in the West though the estimated 11 Million Ukrainian victims is nearly double the number of Jews alone murdered during WWII. What is unclear in that article is how our now Congressionally-mandaed memorial to that tragedy signals remembering "those who sacrificed their lives to defend freedom". Those 11 Million Ukrainians yearning for independence were starved-to-death and murdered in cold-blood by their own nation and were never even afforded an opportunity to defend freedom of any kind, much less their own. This was a case of gratuitous and unwarranted sacrifice, and nothing short of mass murder by one of history's single-most terrifying tyrants.
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