[aaus-list] Vladimir Kozlov says Holodomor not genocide

[Jurij Dobczansky]

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia issued a DVD and a thick book of historical
documents on Wednesday to dispute claims that the Ukrainian famine of
the 1930s amounted to genocide.

Russian archivists and historians pressed the Kremlin's case that the
Stalin-era famine — which killed millions of people — was a common
tragedy across Soviet farmlands, countering efforts by Ukraine's
pro-Western president to convince the world that Ukrainians were
targeted for starvation.

"Not a single document exists that even indirectly shows that the
strategy and tactics chosen for Ukraine differed from those applied to
other regions, not to mention tactics or strategy with the aim of
genocide," said Vladimir Kozlov, head of Russia's Federal Archive
Agency.
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