[aaus-list] Documenting Holodomor denial

[Jurij Dobczansky]

Dear Colleagues!
     A well-timed example of Holodomor denial:
Solzhenitsyn's op-ed piece in the April 5 Boston Globe coincides with the Chicago Tribune's April 2 story on the 370-56 vote in Russia's lower parliament dismissing claims that the Holodomor of 1932-1933 was genocide. 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-080402-russia-famine-genocide-weapr03,1,2388192,print.story 
 
Interestingly enough, the 89-year old former dissident is to receive an honorary degree from Syracuse University on May 11, 2008.