This presentation analyzes the terrific results of politically engineering cataclysm organized by one the most cruel dictators in the world – Joseph Stalin, in his war against Ukrainians – the biggest national minority in Soviet Union. With this lecture Dr. Davydenko wants to pay tribute to the millions of victims of Great Famine (also known as Holodomor). Soviet authorities succeeded in carefully hiding the fact of the famine and destroyed the 1932-1933 archives but could not erase it from the memories of Ukrainians who survived.

Now Holodomor is recognized as genocide by 26 countries, including the USA. The US Commission on the Ukraine Famine, set up by the US Congress, came to the conclusion that quantity of victims numbered in the millions. In resolution dated June 26, 2008, the US House of representatives encouraged the dissemination of information regarding the Famine-Genocide in order to expand the world’s knowledge of this man-made tragedy. However some countries, notably Russia, even now reject the arguments that it was genocide. Moreover, Russian authorities even try to promote positive view of Stalin’s role in history.

The intention of this lecture is to analyze if international definition of genocide is applicable to the Great Famine and what must be done by international community to prevent similar tragedies in the future, learning from the past.