The authoritative journal “Nationalities Papers” published two comparative research articles on the Holodomor in Ukraine and Russia

A special issue of the academic journal “Nationalities Papers”, which was published in the spring of 2020 (volume 48(3), pp. 492-512 and 530-548) featured two important articles on the Holodomor. The articles explained the history of the famine in Ukraine in 1932-33 compared to what was happening in Russia. This is the first time such a comparison has ever been presented in academe. These studies were implemented by scholars thanks to the long-standing assistance of the USF. The researchers worked with copies of documents which had been retrieved from the archives of Moscow prior to the war in eastern Ukraine. The originals of these materials once existed in Ukraine, but they were destroyed during World War II. These new articles have proven that the losses from the famine in Ukraine exceeded the losses in Russia by four times. The famine ravaged all regions of Ukraine, but only a few regions in Russia.  The large increase in mortality in Ukraine does not coincide with the course of any other famine known to mankind. These two articles testified to this fact and thus strengthen the thesis that the Holodomor of 1933 was organized in order to terrorize the population – a phenomenon that today is considered a manifestation of real genocide.