aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] Re: "Golodomor-1933. Nevyuchennye uroki"

["Jurij Dobczansky" <jdob@loc.gov>]

Thanks for bringing this made-for-television program to our attention. For those who would like to view the text, an "unofficial stenogram" was made available by the "Malorusskaia Narodnaia Istoricheskaia Biblioteka" at http://arhiv.malorus.org/video/golodomor-1933.html 


>>> Natalia Pylypiuk <natalia.pylypiuk@ualberta.ca> 5/22/2008 4:42 PM >>>
Colleagues,
With your indulgence, I am forwarding a posting by A. Makuch (CIUS),
which  was sent to colleagues in Canada.
Regards,
NP

> From:   "Andrij Makuch" <a.makuch@utoronto.ca>
> Date:   Thu, 22 May 2008 15:18:14 -0400
>
> FYI -- My take from a quick and incomplete viewing.
>
> "Golodomor-1933. Nevyuchennye uroki"
>
> <http://rutube.ru/tracks/656862.html?v=3351c2733f6af9671690fcc0a81e7178 
> >http://rutube.ru/tracks/656862.html?v=3351c2733f6af9671690fcc0a81e7178 
>
> This 44-minute documentary on the Holodomor, directed by Alexei
> Denisov and produced presumably for Russian television (and
> copyrighted by the VGTRK). I had only a fragmentary viewing of it to
> get a flavour for what it was all about. My impression was that you
> could almost call it "The Empire Strikes Back" [on the Holodomor  
> issue].
>
> Early on we see a classroom in Kyiv in which students are being taught
> about the Holodomor. Fine, But in the context of what comes later, we
> understand that they are being brainwashed.
>
> Another part seems to go into the whole argument that the Holodomor
> was not a singular event as there was famine throughout different
> parts of the USSR at that time. I didn't catch this part clearly, as I
> was skimming through the film and stayed here only briefly. This whole
> issue is a bit problematic, as it is not simple to explain or -- for
> some -- to accept. There was famine in various parts of the Union, but
> it was Ukraine that was deliberately targeted with specific
> administrative measures that greatly/vastly acerbated the scale of
> death by hunger.
>
> Some history is given, including events in the Ukrainian SSR during
> the 1920s, when that terrible policy of Ukrainization led to the
> persecution of Russians and Russian culture in Ukraine. It was led by
> "nationalists." In fact, the label  "nationalist" is used quite often
> in the film.
>
> Stanislav Kulchytsky, perhaps the leading Ukrainian authority on the
> Famine, is interviewed. This segment is then followed with an ad
> hominem attack, noting that Kulchytsky was once a member of an
> official Soviet-era Ideological Committee [and so his word is not to
> be trusted].
>
> Academician Petro Tolochko is brought forward, and he unabashedly  
> displays
> why as he talks perfectly to script.
>
> Finally, we are told that the Holodomor agenda is being pushed by the
> winners of the Orange Revolution (note: actually it is Yushchenko, not
> Yulka, who is working this file). The Orange Revolution was, of
> course, an event financed by American money. (It follows that the
> wide-spread desire to do away with Kuchmaism is not mentioned).
>
> There is still some stuff about the Russian Orthodox church, but I did
> not look at enough to say what the gist of it was.
>
> Anyhow, ochen' interestno. It was on T.V., so it must be the truth --
> or at least shaping/reinforcing popular opinion in Russia on this
> matter.
>
>
_______________________________________________
aaus-list mailing list
aaus-list@ukrainianstudies.org 
http://www.brama.com/mailman/listinfo/aaus-list