Birgit SchmeitznerNov 26, 2022
It’s the fourth Saturday of November, the annual #Holodomor Memorial Day. I didn't hear about this artificial famine caused by Soviet leader #Stalin in school. I knew nothing about the millions of dead in Ukraine back in 1932–33. Only when I moved to Russia, lived there for a few years and traveled around #Ukraine, did I learn about it. And I realised: many people do not know about this crime. Good that there will be a debate on a resolution at the German Bundestag on Weds. #genocide
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@BSchmeitzner @peterherold

I remember learning about it at school. But then, I grew up in one of the largest Ukrainian diasporas in the world. My city was more than 10% Ukrainian.

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@clacksee @peterherold I was downright shocked when I realised that I have a big blind spot in my historical knowledge. Ukraine did not feature in my history lessons. There was the Soviet Union and there was the Iron Curtain. Generalisation.
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