The incidences of sleight-of-hand in this article are remarkable. First, the article states “Holodomor, the mass famine of the early 1930s…has nothing to do with today’s Russia.” No one has ever claimed that those events had something to do with today’s Russia. The claim is, that they were deliberately engineered by Soviet Moscow, and that it is indecent for today’s Russia, as the primary successor state of the Soviet Union, to deny this, and to avoid apologising for it. Just as the Federal Republic of Germany is not the Third Reich but as its successor the moral responsibility for atoning for Nazi crimes falls on it, so the Russian Federation is not the Soviet Union, but as its successor the moral responsibility for atoning for Soviet crimes falls on it. Secondly, the article states “Holodomor, the mass famine of the early 1930s, was done by Ukrainian authorities of the time…” Is anyone expected to believe that policies in Soviet Ukraine, regardless of whom they were carried out by, were formulated by anyone other than Soviet Moscow? The article continues in the same vein, “Declassified documents make it clear (that the perpetrators of the crime) were Ukrainian officials, members of the Ukrainian communist party and the repressive institutions existing in Ukraine at the time." So they were acting on their own behalf, with absolutely no control or direction whatever from Moscow? A most novel view, to put it mildly. Thirdly, this from the article: “Russia argues that the famine was caused by a combination of bad management, unfavourable weather and disastrous collectivization policies, which lead to the tragic events and cost numerous lives of many ethnic groups over several territories and not just Ukraine alone.” It fails to clarify the absolute obvious, however – the “disastrous collectivization policies” were the policies of Soviet Moscow, dreamed up by it, applied by it, and enforced by it. They were not the policies of Turkmenistan. While Moscow was nor responsible for the weather, it was responsible for administrational incompetence and fully responsible for the "disastrous collectivization policies" that it imposed. And fourthly, we often meet the astonishing “defence” from today's Russia that Moscow’s crimes against non-Russians are, by some unexplained magic, mitigated by the fact that Soviet Moscow also worked atrocities against Russians. No one has ever proposed the similarly outrageous equivalent defence of Nazi German crimes against Russia, for example, claiming that Nazis Germans are not guilty of atrocities against Russians because Nazis also committed atrocities against German citizens. If today’s Russia wants to establish normal relations with its neighbours from Japan to the Baltics to Poland to Ukraine to Georgia, it has to become a bit more serious and take a much more mature and realistic approach to Soviet-era crimes which Russians committed against their neighbours.

But the German people voted in Hitler Russia did not vote in Lenin or Stalin and was installed in a foreign coup used as a proxy force to spread Communism world wide just as the intelligence reports at the time said. Just like they used Afghanistan in 97 under the Taliban. And I would expect to see actual Russians mentioned at the forefront of these action like in the Holomodor here the top ranking officials who actually carried it out by Jews and Latvians a list comprised by Ukrainian Secret Service themselves and the foot soldiers was done by Ukrainian red army soldiers. . **** Russia will apologise when western powers and those who profited from supporting the Soviet regime The Federal Reserve, western banking firms Warburg, Schiff, Rothschild apologise and compensate Russia for supporting communism in Russia. Why don't they talk about this foreign influence and support which includes the media and think tanks for Communism?