the destruction of culture and identity was not included in the convention, although rafa lemkin, whothe term genocide, very ... clearly thought and spoke about the destruction of culture as one of the key elements of genocide, that is, the destruction of culture, the burning of books, the destruction of museums, the detonation libraries, surely we can definitely use them as signs of intent. during his lifetime, rafal lemkin drew attention to moscow's previous crimes against ukrainians. in a 1953 report, lem. described the kremlin's attempts to destroy the ukrainian nation as soviet genocide in ukraine. one of the methods of that genocide was the holodomor, a famine artificially created by moscow in ukraine in 1932-33, which claimed the lives of almost 4 million ukrainians. but not only. the author of the word genocide drew attention to the systematic imprisonment and execution of ukrainian teachers, writers, artists, thinkers and political leaders, starting... with the 1920s. in general, over a million people were arrested in ukraine during the soviet period, and 140,000 of them were