Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1953-09-20
- 2) Human profile
- Raphael Lemkin · Jurist who coined the word "genocide"
- 3) Decisions
- Called the Ukrainian famine a classic case of Soviet genocide at the Manhattan Center rally
- Affected
- About 15,000 people at the rally; the first organised Western testimony
Holodomor Museum
Hiding the famineMedium confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1983-02 … 1983-07-05
- 2) Human profile
- Alexander Yakovlev · Soviet Ambassador to Canada; with the Novosti bureau in Ottawa
- 3) Decisions
- Secret memo proposing measures against the 50th-anniversary commemoration
- Novosti sent denial press releases to Canadian media, universities and MPs
- The embassy protested the Edmonton famine monument
- Affected
- Canadian public debate on the 50th anniversary
- Gap
- Memo dated February (EN) or March (UK) 1983; KGB involvement is "citation needed" in the UK Wikipedia.
EN Wikipedia · Denial
Hiding the famineMedium confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1987
- 2) Human profile
- Douglas Tottle · Canadian trade-union organiser and journalist, Winnipeg
- 3) Decisions
- Published "Fraud, Famine and Fascism" (Progress Books, Toronto), calling the genocide a Nazi and Hearst fabrication
- Affected
- Became the standard denial text in the West
- Gap
- Soviet sponsorship rests on the Sundberg commission's inference and Kyiv reviewers' role, not a released file.
EN Wikipedia · Denial
Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1987-12-25
- 2) Human profile
- Volodymyr Shcherbytsky · First Secretary of the CC of the Communist Party of Ukraine, CPSU Politburo member
- 3) Decisions
- Mentioned the famine in a few lines of his 70th-anniversary report, blaming drought
- Affected
- Ended 55 years of official silence while still distorting the cause
EN WikipediaUK Wikipedia
Hiding the famineHigh confidence
- 1) Time range
- 1990-01-26
- 2) Group profile
- CC of the Communist Party of Ukraine · First Secretary Volodymyr IvashkoSelector: Kyiv
- 3) Decisions
- Admitted the famine and millions of deaths, blaming excessive procurement by the Stalin leadership
- Authorised the first official document volume (Kyiv, 1990)
- Affected
- The first official release of party archive documents
Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Kulchytsky)