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Utahns help mark Ukraine tragedy

roman | 2:44 p.m. May 11, 2008

While Stalin was starving Ukrainians they were not permitted to cross the border into Russia where food was readily available. It was a genocide directed at exterminating the Ukrainian peasants.

Andrew | 5:16 p.m. May 11, 2008

Why was this article re-published from http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700224448,00.html downplaying the title's ï¿½famine, genocideï¿½ to the more neutral ï¿½tragedyï¿½?

ralph | 7:53 p.m. May 11, 2008

Definition of a "tragedy" is that you can see it coming and yet you fail to get out of the way. I don't think the Ukrainians saw it coming. Thus is was truly a famine and a genocide.

And Stalin did it? He seems to get a lot well deserved credit for such things. We still suffer from his hand in some countries where he mixed nationalities in order to control them (think Armenia, Azerbejian).

I really don't expect to see him in Heaven. But he could be a site manager in hell.

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Mykola Tochytskyi, consul general of Ukraine, is handed a torch by Jonathan Freedman at the Alta Club for a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of genocide in the Ukraine.