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<P class=hn-byline><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">23 July
2008<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">KYIV, <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:country-region> — <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region> on
Wednesday blamed Soviet leaders for a famine that killed millions of people in
1932-33 and published documents it said "unequivocally" proved its case, part of
its campaign to get the tragedy recognized as
genocide.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
national security service published archive documents it said proved that Soviet
leader Josef Stalin and his subordinates were responsible for the
famine.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
scale of the death toll is contested. Some historians believe 3.5 million
perished in what is known in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region> as "Holodomor," or "death by
hunger", while the country's leaders say up to 10 million
died.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
issue has become a sore point in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:country-region>'s uneasy relations with
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial
size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Russia</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:country-region><FONT
face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> made no
official comment Wednesday. In April, the lower house of parliament passed a
resolution saying the famine should not be considered
genocide.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
documents included orders to punish those resisting collectivization and
withholding agricultural products as well as details on campaigns to root out
Ukrainian nationalist organizations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The
famine was masterminded by Soviet authorities to force peasants across the
<st1:place w:st="on">Soviet Union</st1:place> to give up their private plots and
join collective farms. The measure was particularly calamitous in
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region>, the breadbasket of the
Soviet state.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Moscow</SPAN></FONT></st1:place></st1:City><FONT
face=Arial size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> says it was
not an act of genocide because other ethnic groups, such as Russians and
Kazakhs, also suffered. As the Soviet Union's legal successor,
<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region> is also concerned about the
possibility of legal action or having to pay
reparations.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Arial size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Historians in <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ukraine</st1:place></st1:country-region> and the
West are divided on whether the famine was an act of genocide. Some are
convinced the famine targeted Ukrainians as an ethnic group. Others argue Soviet
authorities set out to eradicate private landowners as a social
class.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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