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Mumsnet Discussions: Bereavement : Great Famine in Ukraine 1932-1933 (11 messages)
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Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ukrainianmum on Tue 18-Nov-08 17:55:54
Not sure if it is the right place to place it here.
In 1932-1933 my country suffered a huge himanitarian tragedy. It was artificially made by the Siviet regime. It is know as a
Great Hunger or Holodomor

look here http://www.holodomor.org
This Saturday at 14:00 UK time please lit a candle in your window to memory of millions victims of this tragedy. Hold a minute of silence for all who died in those years.
It is a huge tragedy for our nation.

Please, lets not forget.

Thank you all
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By abraid on Tue 18-Nov-08 18:01:09
This was a terrible, evil crime and I agree with you that not many people in this country know about it.

Stalin was truly the most evil, despicable creature.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By NomDePlume on Tue 18-Nov-08 18:24:36
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Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Fiveplusbump on Tue 18-Nov-08 18:26:32
I will do .
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By moondog on Tue 18-Nov-08 18:31:22
Hi Ukrainian mum.
I know about this. My dh used to work in the former USSR and I have visited Kiev. Yes, your people have suffered so much. sad
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By 2Eliza2 on Tue 18-Nov-08 18:39:11
I had to research this period when I was writing my last book and I was just stunned at how a deliberate famine could be engineered. Truly dreadful.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By NomDePlume on Fri 21-Nov-08 17:44:23
bumping for ukranian mum.

2pm tomorrow
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ukrainianmum on Fri 21-Nov-08 17:58:57
Hello everybody!!

Yes please, all of you who will read this tonight or tomorrow please, light up a candlein you window and place a little slice of a bread next to it and please remember in a minute of silence all unnamed millions of this terrible and awful tragedy!

Saturday, 22nd of Nov, 14:00 in UK time
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ukrainianmum on Fri 21-Nov-08 17:59:44
NomDePlum-thank you.
Contact the poster See this person's profile Contact mumsnet about this post By ukrainianmum on Sat 22-Nov-08 17:03:28
<y heart is shrinking with sadness and horror when I am watching programms about Graet Famine in my country.
The actual facts became available few years ago and they are horrific. How many families, villages just vanished.The horror is how people were waiting for the death. Al the stories are so difficult to hear and to accept. How it can be when one man totally destoys the whole nation???

But what makes me really angry is that despite the facts, lots of people don't accept the whole thing about the Great Famine??
my grandma was living in Russia in those years, on the border and she told me that they had military guards between two respublics and how Ukrainians were not allowed to go the neighbour russion village to get some food.

I just pray for all the lost souls in this one of the biggest humanitarion catastrophe.
And hope that the world will never forget what evil can bring all the total regimes!

Lets stop any Genocide in this world and live in peace!
Contact the poster Contact mumsnet about this post By Mercy on Sat 22-Nov-08 17:18:40
I know absolutely nothing about this so will read your link later.

My aunt's husband was of Jewish Ukranian descent so it will be of particular interest.


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