during his lifetime, rafal lemkin drew attention to moscow's previous crimes against ukrainians. in in a 1953 report, lemkin 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. artificially created by moscow famine in ukraine 1900 32-33 years, which took the lives of almost 4 million ukrainians, and not only that. the author of the word genocide drew attention to the systematic imprisonment and execution of ukrainian teachers, writers, artists, thinkers and political leaders, starting in the 1920s. in general, over a million people were arrested in ukraine during the soviet period, 140,00 of them shot the generation of hundreds of ukrainians destroyed by terror. writers and artists were later called a shot revival. ukraine is very easily susceptible to national destruction, when it is carried out by attacking selected parts of its population. therefore , communist tactics there differed from the pattern of german attacks on jews. the ukrainian nation is too populous to be completely

it also strikingly echoes how rafal lemkin described the soviet genocide in ukraine in his. reports of 1953. there was no attempt to completely kill ukrainians, like the method of the german attack on jews and less so, if the soviet program achieves complete success, ukraine will die in the same way as if all ukrainians had been killed, because it will lose that part of the people that preserved and developed its culture, its beliefs, its unifying ideas, which laid it they gave way. soul, that is , they made it a nation, not just a population. the un genocide convention also does not speak exclusively about attempts to completely destroy a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, it speaks of total or partial destruction. by definition, genocide is not at all about the number of victims. even if you kill one person or two, if you can clearly show that... there was an intent to destroy a group, genocide was committed. so, whether this intention was sufficiently demonstrated by cases of mass murder, deportation, russification of children, russian propaganda, targeted attacks on ukrai

vision of the man who created the term genocide, who is also behind the un genocide convention, rafal lemkin. lemken is the man who coined the word genocide and has really been fighting its manifestations for a very, very long time. dr. lemkin, could you tell us why you were interested in this fight against genocide? i became interested in genocide because it happened so many times was happening i told myself that as a lawyer i had to do something about it, and i submitted a draft convention. i tried to interest the organizations of the united nations, so i approached the delegations. delegations of cuba, mr. and india supported the resolution and then we started the process. the destruction of culture and identity was not included in the convention, although rafa lemkin, who coined the term genocide, very clearly thought and spoke about the destruction of culture as one of the key elements of genocide. that is, destruction of culture, burning of books, destruction of museums, detonation libraries, surely we can definitely... use them as signs of intent. during his lifetime, rafa lemkin drew