MIKHAIL VELLER: GOLODOMOR WAS NOT GENOCIDE

PanARMENIAN.Net
25.11.2008 12:15 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Golodomor was not genocide, a Russian author said.

"Genocide is deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in
part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. It’s a crime
against a nation. It was genocide when Turks slaughtered Armenians
in 1915, because the crime was committed against the Armenian nation
only," Mikhail Veller told Golos Rosii (the voice of Russia) radio
station.

"During World War II, Jews and Gipsy were killed irrelative of social
position. It was genocide. Ukrainians suffered like the people in other
republics of the Soviet Union. Presently, the Ukrainian authorities
are trying to make the population break with Russia, whose influence
in the country is still great. Russia’s fault is also obvious. It
should have recognized the mass crimes committed by the soviet power
to avoid the consequences we have now," he said.

Ukraine demands that Golodomor in 1930-ies be recognized as genocide
against Ukrainian people by soviet Russia.