Truth Denied
“That people were starving to death in Ukraine, and that this was a political act, not an act of God, was hidden from the world. And then sometimes the world just looked away.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic
Holodomor Memorial in Washington, DC
Visit the Holodomor Memorial in the heart of Washington, DC. Steps from the iconic dome of the United States Capitol Building and the travel hub of Union Station, the Larysa Kurylas-designed monument, authorized by acts of Congress and signed into law by the White House, is an essential and convenient stop in a tour of the nation’s capital. Metered parking is available on the street or hourly parking is available in the Union Station Parking Garage at 30 Massachusetts Avenue, NE. Plan your visit today:
“What I want to speak about is perhaps the classic example of Soviet genocide, its longest and broadest experiment in Russification — the destruction of the Ukrainian nation.”
Raphael Lemkin, Lawyer who first coined the term “genocide”
and initiated the United Nations Genocide Convention, from
his 1953 UN speech “Soviet Genocide in the Ukraine”
HISTORY
The Holodomor was the centerpiece of the Soviet Union’s ruthless campaign against nationally conscious Ukrainians opposed to Stalinism. In addition to decimating Ukraine’s political, intellectual, cultural, and religious elites, Joseph Stalin’s communist regime intentionally starved Ukraine’s farmers and their families – the very same people whose crops were sold throughout the Soviet Union and abroad – resulting in the death of millions of men, women, and children.