Excerpts from the 1953 speech SOVIET GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE, presented by Raphael Lemkin, the man who…

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Excerpts from the 1953 speech SOVIET GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE, presented by Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term “genocide”.

Presented in New York City at the 20th Commemoration of the Holodomor in 1953:

’For the Ukrainian is not and has never been, a Russian. His culture, his temperament, his language, his religion – all are different.’

‘What I want to speak about is perhaps the classic example of Soviet genocide, its longest and broadest experiment in Russification – the destr...