Newsletter published on 10 January 2014
Peter Myers, January
10, 2014
When Viktor Yushchenko was President of Ukraine, he sought to
move it
away from Russia and towards the United States.
He proclaimed
the Holodomor (Ukraine Famine) a genocide, and sought
assistance from the
Anti-Defamation League in achieving closer relations
with the US
Government.
Perhaps he did not know that the Orange Revolution (which
brought him to
power) had been secretly orchestrated by Gene Sharp, the
State
Department and foundations such as the National Endowment for
Democracy
(NED).
The ADL being a leading part of the Jewish lobby in
the US, Yushchenko's
approach suggested that he believed that it was close
to the seat of power.
Yushchenko depicted the Holodomor as a genocide
perpetrated by Russians.
Yet it was only in the Soviet era that such an
event happened - not in
the centuries of the Tsarist Russian
Empire.
The Bolshevik Revolution had been led by atheistic Jews, and even
though
Stalin overthrew them, they were still greatly influential during the
1930s. The Collectivization of Agriculture, as part of an
Industrialization drive, was one of Trotsky's policies, which Stalin had
opposed (instead supporting Bukharin's pro-peasant line).
Trotsky,
although exiled, was agenda-setting from the sidelines. His
hardline
approach may be gauged by his earlier proposal for the
"militarization of
labor", ie forced labour on a large scale. Lenin had
rejected that, but
Stalin lated adopted his similar proposal in the
Collectivization
drive.
Bolshevik Jews, from Kaganovich down, played a large role in the
suppression of Ukrainians. Yuri Slezkine, a Jewish author, calls them
"Stalin's Willing Executioners" (The Jewish Century, p. 103).
Michael
Hudson, an Economics Professor whose father was the American
Trotskyist
leader Carlos Hudson, visited the ADL, and reported, "These
were old
Schachtmanites who had become ultra-rightists." Schachtmanites
are a faction
of Trotskyist.
Yet
Yushchenko approached the very same forces for assistance, all the
while
blaming the Russians.
Leaders of the ADL visited Ukraine and met with
Yushchenko's chief
adviser. No doubt, observing the success of the ADL in
promoting
Holocaust-awareness, Yushchenko was hoping to enlist their support
to
make the Holodomor equally prominent.
But rather than co-operate
with this venture, ADL leaders warned
Yushchenko not to invade their turf -
not to create a RIVAL Holocaust in
the public mind.
Parts of the
meeting are recorded in a Youtube video. It shows Abe
Foxman (head of the
ADL) saying:
"But one thing that you need to be sensitive about is not to
link it
{the Holodomor} with the Holocaust. Be careful that it not be linked
as
your genocide and our genocide, because that would be
counter-productive."
A
Ukrainian refugee Andrew <andrew@ukrcdn.com> writes:
Yushchenko,
Ukraine’s only president to recognize the Holodomor as
genocide – bullied by
the ADL not to compare with Holocaust
February 18th, 2010 Andrew
I
tweeted about this earlier today and posted a clip from the 2009
documentary
Defamation in which an Israeli-Jew discusses the
politicization of the
Holocaust and Anti-Semitism in modern times.
Abe Foxman the head of the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the world’s
largest advocate for Israel and
fighting Anti-Semitism meets with
Yushchenko’s advisors and warns them not
to compare the two genocides –
the Holodomor and the Holocaust:
Abe
Foxman (head of the ADL): But one thing that you need to be
sensitive about
is not to link it (the Holodomor) with the Holocaust. Be
careful that it not
be linked as ‘your genocide’ and ‘our genocide’,
because that would be
counter-productive.
Israel has still yet to recognize the Holodomor as
genocide.
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