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The Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 and the UN Convention on Genocide We are very grateful to Professor Serbyn for kindly allowing us to publish this very important article The State of the Question
The historicity of the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 is no longer challenged. What is still disputed is the number of victi... | 1.415095 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
i.e., in the same way that Armenians died in the Ottoman Empire in 1915, or Jews in the European countries that were occupied by Hitlers Reich.” Convinced that the Ukrainian famine cannot satisfy the criteria set by the UN Genocide Convention, he comes to a rather surprising conclusion: “And there is no need to prove ... | 1.628137 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
” into its own Code of Criminal Law.
The term “genocide” was coined in 1943 by Raphael Lemkin (1900-1959) “from the ancient Greek word
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court case cited by Schabas provides, in my opinion, a more appropriate interpretation of “national group”: “According to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the term ‘national group refers to ‘a collection of people who are perceived to share a legal bond based on common citizenship, coupled with reciproc... | 1.577831 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
and pointing out that "intent and motive are not interchangeable notions"[23], Schabas nevertheless focuses on the expression "as such", and insists that the crime of gencide must be "motivated by hatred of the group"[24]. To a large extent this is so. With the help of a criminal ideology, perpetrators of genocide can... | 1.711316 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ov stressed the need to organize "such defence of the Soviet Union [...] that would guarantee a victorious retaliation to the united forces of our eventual adversaries" [emphasis added - R.S.].[30] What the Soviet leaders were hinting at was, in fact, a "preventive war" in which, as Stalin explained ten years later, th... | 1.439758 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
peasant now harvested 85 % of the grain, but only sold 11% of it outside the village. What had happened, but what Stalin failed to mention, was that the peasant was keeping more grain for himself, eating better and feeding his family more adequately, but contravening the main goal Stalin set for Soviet agriculture, wh... | 1.621448 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the population. Ukrainians lived in compact settlements in RSFSR and were also overwhelmingly engaged in agriculture. Ukrainian agriculturalists constituted an important segment of the overall Soviet population and were especially prominent in the black-earth belt, where collectivization would have the gravest consequ... | 1.826419 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
set up a short-lived Ukrainophile Kuban Rada in 1918, opened Ukrainian schools and began using the Ukrainian language in the public domain.
Soviet Ukraine was becoming a "Piedmont" not only for the Ukrainian lands in Poland, Czechoslovakia and Rumania, but also for the adjoining regions of the RSFSR.[37] Stalin could ... | 1.66877 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
January 1930, to liquidate the kulaks and set up a commission headed by Stanislav Kosior, the general secretary of the KP(b)U, with V. Balytsky, L. Postyshev, and two others as members.[43] On 30 January 1930 the Central Committee in Moscow approved a secret resolution for dekulakization and deportation. It stipulated... | 1.613839 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
ivization produced desired results. In November 1929, out of the total of 5,144,800 Ukrainian households, only 522,500, or 10.4 % were members of collective farms. Plans for Ukraine, worked out in Moscow in November 1929, foresaw the collectivization of 33.8 % of the households for the summer 1930, and 53.8 % for the f... | 1.635856 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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10 April 44.3 53.2
1 May 41.3 49.8
1 June 36.1 45.8
1 August 29.5 36.5
1 September 28.4 34.8
1 October 28.7 34.1
The precipitous decollectivization was a spectacular condemnation of the kolkhosps by the farmers. But the collectivization drive was only slowed down, not abandoned, for while the tactics changed, the ma... | 1.596033 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
. Many abandoned the countryside and fled to the industrial centres, especially to the Donbas region. Farmers killed their cattle rather than turn them over to the kolkhoz, where the conditions were so poor that the mortality of the farm animals was very high. Cows, which the kolhospnyks were allowed to keep, became th... | 1.396564 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
machines and other implements, draught animals and farm buildings — are socialised", but "the house-hold plots (small vegetable gardens, small orchards) the dwelling houses, a part of the dairy cattle, small livestock, poultry, etc., are
not socialised."[55] The "not socialised" sector of the kolkhosp economy was supp... | 1.942914 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, "the sowing was often carried out with seeds of poorer quality," and "the quantity of seeds per hectare was also lower". Thus, even though "the young crops in these raions are good and the fields are free of weeds, the grain is sparse". Petrovsky was also struck by the large amount of unsowed land. Aware of all these... | 1.992521 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
proposed a top level conference to be convened "on the organization of grain procurement and the unconditional fulfilment of the grain-procurement plan", and insisted that the responsibility for grain procurement "be entrusted personally to the first secretaries of the Northern Caucasus, Ukraine", and all the other gr... | 1.941729 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
of law (the peasant loves legality), and not merely in accordance with the practice of the OGPU, although it is clear that the OGPUs role here will not only not diminish but, on the contrary, it will be strengthened and ennobled (the OGPU agencies will operate on a lawful basis rather than high-handedly)".[72] active
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, but also among its leadership. Ukrainians are not taking the resolution of their own Party conference on grain procurement seriously, "since they consider it partly coerced". The CC KP(b) must therefore issue an official order, appraising the Ukrainian affairs and demanding a decisive turnabout. This will straighten ... | 2.225466 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
tactics for extracting grain from the peasants, and added new measure. Independent and collectives farmers gradually gave up active struggle against the regime and only sought to save theirs lives and that of their families.
Obedience to Moscow was assured in two ways: a) frequently repeated delegations to Ukraine and... | 2.151997 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
2]
The hardier peasants would flee their villages, either alone or with their entire families, and seek salvation in urban centres — especially industrialized Donbas — or go to Belarus and the RSFSR. Accounts of Ukrainian peasants overloading trains, filling stations and wandering about Russian and Belarusian towns and... | 1.814848 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the "correct Bolshevik implementation of Lenins national policy", which was one of integration and assimilation. Ukrainian authorities were therefore instructed to "pay serious attention to the proper implementation of Ukrainization", "expel Petliurite and other bourgeois-nationalist elements from party and government... | 1.966409 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
not be allowed to happen this year. Stalin then orders the party, state and the repressive organs of the Northern Caucaus and Ukraine to prevent peasants from leaving their own territories for other regions of the USSR and directs them to close border crossings between Ukraine and the Northern Caucasus. Furthermore, t... | 1.810285 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
1932, Stalin gloated: "The party has succeeded in replacing the 500-600 million poods of marketable grain, procured during the period of individual peasant holdings by our present ability to collect 1,200-1,400 m.p. of grain. It is hardly necessary to prove that without this leap forward the country would have a famin... | 1.296772 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
USSR, in spite of the large number of important influx of deportees, is probably due more to real and simulated assimilation, than to death.
Victims, perpetrators and onlookers alike were aware of the fact that Stalins war against the Ukrainian peasants was at the same time a direct attack on the Ukrainian nation. The... | 1.884501 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
1.8 % of the Republics overall population, and thus constituting an overwhelming portion of the Republics total population. Stalins direct reference to the Kuban (two thirds Ukrainian) shows that despite the documents theoretical application to all of NCT, it was the descendants of the Ukrainian cossacks, who had suppo... | 1.484691 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
what in the West would be called "ethnic".
[22] S. Kulchytsky titled a recent article "Why Stalin destroyed Ukrainians?"(Den. Nov. 2005).
[23] Schabas, p. 245.
[24] Schabas, p. 255.
[25] Lemkin.
Ibid. P. 80.
[26] Frank Chalk and Kurt Jonassohn,
The History and Sociology of Genocide. Analyses and Case Studies (New Have... | 1.21219 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
na Ukraini (lystopad-1929 — berezen 1030 r.r.). P. 76.
[44] Valerii Vasilev, Linn Viola. Kollektyvizatsiia i selianskyi opir na Ukraini (lystopad-1929 — berezen 1030 r.r.). Vinnytsia, 1997. P. 195.
[45] Liudmyla Hrynevych, "Vyiavlennia natsionalnoi identychnosti ukrainskoho selianstva v roky kolektyvizatsii" Holod 193... | 1.147973 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
[61]
The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence. P. 138 (Underlined by Stalin).
[62]
The Stalin-Kaganovich Correspondence. P. 138-139..
[63]
Holod. 1990. P. 183 (doc. 63), P. 190 (doc. 68).
[64]
The Stalin-Kaganovich correspondence. P. 152. In a letter to Kaganovich, dated 15 July, Stalin comes back to the idea of replacing ... | 1.451484 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
104.
[78] Kosior spoke of 255 m.p. at the January plenum of the CC KP(b)U.
Holod1932-1933 rokiv na Ukraini. P. 352. Davies and Wheatcroft give 3,584,000 tons, or 219 millon poods, P. 478. Other authors give similar figures.
[79]
Holod 1932-1932 rokiv na Ukraini. P. 253.
[80] Davies & Wheatcroft,
The Years of Hunger. P... | 1.246032 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
I've been diagnosed with PVCs. I rarely experience them during the day and never when exercising. I can't even really find a correlation between caffeine/alcohol and them (although I never consume anything caffeinated). I exercise regularly. And I never experience them when exercising.
However, when I do get the PVCs, ... | 1.727547 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
this happening i found a pattern. First i would get a stomach ache, then i would see a honeycomb pattern if my eyes were shut or the room was dark. My pulse would keep getting stronger and faster. I would then taste copper. Once my pulse raised to almost 300 bpm, lol..its more a hum and not beats at that point. My arm... | 1.973594 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
guy, doesn't know all this stuff.
I know with all the testing i should be reassured but still...hard to deal with as im sure you understand.I was on zoloft for 8 years for panic disorder, but stopped takin it because it stopped working for my panic attacks.I almost took wellbutrin but it was too expensive.so i tried p... | 2.005426 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
episodes? Maybe you are like me and you werent having panic attacks, thus, meds wouldnt help. Next time try the pressure thing, taking a deep breath and holding it while trying to push air out...Stops my blow out episodes easy...
"has anyone else had them 2 or 3 in a row ALL NIGHT"
I believe by this you are referring ... | 1.9955 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
the evenings, which yall should try before becoming a lab rat, its worked pretty good for me. If your worried about it keeping you up, drink it at around 4pm, this seems to work better for me..It doesnt stop them totally, but it does reduce them to just minor sputters.Oh, last year we went up to the mountains on vacat... | 1.954807 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
as to what effect it has on me.
I believe there's a lot we can do for each other if we share information on this site. Keep me posted and be well.
@artp1 - Any luck with the brand name Toprol? I think that's also what my doc prescribed me. However, I haven't tried it yet. I'm wary of the side effects and for now I'm a... | 1.934276 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
going to try it anyway, as you seem to be adamant that it works for you.wish me luck!
The standard advice is indeed to avoid much caffeine, but the rationale in favor of it might be that since PVCs are more likely to occur when the heart's Pacemaker has slowed things down (as when you're at rest), then taking a little... | 2.005015 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
MDs and generally cannot prescribe, but they’re not Joe Average off the street, working blind, either. I know of no such practitioners in my city, but if there were such, I would be interested in checking them out for anxiety about ectopic beats. It seems to me that they could be very helpful in this particular area, ... | 2.171862 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, maybe resistance. Anywho, other than just a few occasional flutters, my evening episodes have stopped. I've almost forgotten how they felt, 20 years of anything should be ingrained in your head right. I'm going to say, coffee cured me.
I started this trigeminy, bigeminy irregular heartbeat after I had an angioplasty.... | 2.034437 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to fix these life reckers? I was tested for hormone deviancy and was told that they were low. Has anyone tried any form of birth control pills and if so did they help?
A cardio told me back in 2009, to lower my intake in caffein after being diagnosed with ventrigular trigemy.I have done this however have battled with ... | 1.853755 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
could wear down your heart".
Anyway - I know what provokes them more lately: drinking and hangovers, lack of sleep, lack of exercise.
I guess I never tried the coffee thing at night. Cowgirl, if it's 11pm and I want to get to bed within the next hour would you say too late for the coffee? Tomorrow I'll try between tha... | 1.899973 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
,keep it there. hopefully your thyroids are checked? hyperthyroidism, anxiety etc increase them. best thing to do is, forget about them for most of the day. try. stop working out at odd hours..its not good for you. (tip: sleep on your right side when you feel them at night.) if you experience any palpitations at rest, ... | 1.936767 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
, but in the meantime,life is passing me by. I don't go anywhere except home, work and church. Can anyone tell me what she meant by "troublesome" without scaring me further? How much longer do we"wait and see"?
This is a GREAT thread and so much of it has helped already, but I am not sure I want to try the coffee thing... | 2.014252 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to the beach with my family and had a LOT of PACs, but I survived and am glad I went.
Ptadvoc8-I just happened to read your comment about noticing some relief from your PVC's while on Amoxilcillin, and I noticed the same thing after taking azithromycin for 6 days (almost nil PVC's). A few days after completing, had a ... | 1.899161 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
olol twice a day. No effect. ???
Like so many others on this thread I've been told that my "skipped beats" are nothing to worry about and that there is no cure. It's easy to say don't worry. But as most of you on here know, these things are impossible to ignore.
I'm 43, and apart from the skipped beats, I’m otherwise h... | 1.867656 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
'carnitine can cure PVCs/PACs completely. Haven't tried these myself, as I want to be tested for a deficiency first, but getting the doc to agree to test for micro nutrient deficiency when all the doctors ever want to do is send you home with the "learn to live with it" flea in your ear is not going to be easy.
You sou... | 1.764462 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
to admit this, but sexual activity seems to stop them as well.
Like you I was getting frightened at having them one after an other. Bigemy, Trigemy whatever it's called. I take both flecainide and metoprolol for my afib. Funny but I haven't had an attack of afib since the first one! But I have always had pvc's, even w... | 1.865802 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
gym on the elliptical, and I do interval training, hitting high speeds then recovering, and repeating it for anywhere from 25-50 minutes. I do not experience any arrhythmias during my workouts, so that's good. One evening during an "episode", I put a pulse ox on to measure my heart rate, and it would be so crazy, jump... | 1.899365 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
that are very different...palpitations that can last from 1 min to an hour. Lately they have been happening every day. My doctor had me wear a Holter Monitor (which I have done many times over the years) but this time my doctor said I have something that is very rare Bigeminy and Trigeminy.
Because I have had SVT for ... | 1.689008 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
eminy) ONLY in the evening and before falling asleep?
I've been diagnosed with PVCs. I rarely experience them during the day and never when exercising. I can't even really find a correlation between caffeine/alcohol and them (although I never consume anything caffeinated). I exercise regularly. And I never experience t... | 1.299084 | 1,020 | 1,018 |
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Your EMIs are set to get lower with Reserve Bank of India cutting the repo rates by 25 basis points from 6.75 per cent to 6.5 per cent. If the entire rate cut gets transmitted to borrowers, your EMI will reduce by almost Rs1000, assuming a home loan of Rs50,00,000 for the period of 30 years at 9.4%.
The central bank ha... | 1.363815 | 1,002 | 1,000 |
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Labor and Climate Change: A Briefing Paper for Activists
This briefing paper provides a strategy for addressing organized labor’s stake in climate change. Its goal is to provide activists inside and outside the labor movement with the information they need to help shape effective, worker friendly climate ... | 1.564943 | 1,024 | 1,022 |
A lot of attention is paid (here, as well as elsewhere) on the “Agile Manifesto“, and while it’s an important
component of the Agile way of thinking, it’s not the be-all, end-all statement that came out of the Snowbird conference around the turn of the century. Rather, there are twelve guiding principles in addition to... | 1.455706 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
motivation to deliver is an extremely common anti-pattern in large organizations. The most efficient and effective method of conveying information to and within a development team is face-to-face conversation.
The age-old method of having a single SME who writes down everything they want and hands it over to developer... | 1.670052 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
but smaller and simpler increments that may add up to something very large — and which may also indirectly shrink the overall goals as well. The biggest hurdle here is that simple is harder than complex — especially when people engage in brainstorming and edge-casing, which often happens with technical teams. Solve th... | 1.877358 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
« Back to 21st Century Science, Part One main page Related Programs for: 21st Century Science, Part One Here are some previous Think Tank programs that may be of interest. 21st Century Science, Part Two (aired 11/24/2005) Human cloning, stem-cell research, global warming, and so-called “Intelligent Design” are only a f... | 1.294048 | 978 | 976 |
Emerging market investors have little to cheer about these days. EM currencies are falling, corporate debt is rising, and economic growth, to say it with Christine Lagarde’s words, is “cause for concern”.
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Ask your average political nerd to guess Noam Chomsky’s favourite newspaper and few would tender the Financial Times. But the emeritus professor of linguistics and philosophy at MIT, revered the world over by left-wing intellectuals and social activists, believes the pink ‘un is the o... | 1.801488 | 1,022 | 1,020 |
Solomon Says Diverted Funds Won't Stall Clean Energy Projects Despite diverting nearly $300 million from two energy funds, Board of Public Utilities President Lee Solomon told lawmakers the agency will fully finance all pending clean energy projects.
Despite the diversion of nearly $300 million from two energy funds, B... | 1.403685 | 1,019 | 1,017 |
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This one might be a tough question: What would I do if I were an insect? I imagine a lot of people haven’t even thought about it, and neither had I. It took a bit of time to come up with an insect like myself. How does someone liken themselves to an insect in the first place? After thinking about it, ... | 1.862487 | 1,003 | 1,001 |
All this news about commencement speakers being scared away or disinvited or staying the course despite adversity or giving students a tongue-lashing makes me want to return to a commencement address from an earlier time.
That time was 1956, nearly a full sixty years ago. The place was Colby College in Waterville, Main... | 1.831561 | 1,002 | 1,001 |
Lurking in the blood of tropical snails is a single-celled creature called Capsaspora owczarzaki. This tentacled, amoebalike species is so obscure that no one even noticed it until 2002. And yet, in just a few years it has moved from anonymity to the scientific spotlight. It turns out to be one of the closest relatives... | 1.275626 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
Transcription factors switch other genes on and off, and some of them are vital for turning a fertilized egg into a complex animal body.
In the current issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution, Dr. Ruiz-Trillo and his colleagues report that Capsaspora shares a number of transcription factors that were once thought to ... | 1.243513 | 1,024 | 1,023 |
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