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[jacensolodjo]

Better pictures of the Holodomor exhibit in the 10 Stages of Genocide Gallery at the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum. [Click pic to embiggen. Or open in new tab for even bigger but also grainier.]

Please consider donating to the DHHRM if possible. You may donate in the name of others, such as those who have passed and have asked for donations in their memory be made to institutions of their choice. 

The Empty Baskets graphic novel mentioned on the plaque is available for purchase with 9 others in a collection that you can find at each ‘stage’ exhibit (hence 10 stages of genocide) from the DHHRM museum’s gift shop here. 

The Holodomor was an attempt to wipe out the Ukrainian population of the then-USSR. Up to 10 million died of hunger, froze to death, were shot or hanged, sent to Siberia (where they then also died). To this day it is still denied as being genocide as well as whether or not it was actually a thing that happened at all (Some people will actually claim the Holodomor happened far more readily than the Holocaust. Which kinda turns into people believing that anyone who says the Holodomor happened has to be a nazi/neo-nazi/fascist which of course is Holodomor denial yay paradox). And yes, it didn’t just affect Ukrainians but Poles and some Russians as well (along with a few other ethnicities) but the victim target was predominantly Ukrainian. Incidentally, another stage in the 10 Stages is ‘Denial’ which is exemplified by the Armenian Genocide, (in)famously noted as attaining more than 100 years of denial. 

Anyone who knows the story of the Holodomor cannot have that idea coexist with the idea that anything Russia is doing now is not just another extension of trying to wipe out the remainder of the lines of Ukrainians who have been rebelling since time immemorial. When we talk about how we survived everything, we mean it. We mention the Holodomor constantly as proof of our spirit that Russia has been trying to crush for at least 100 years. It is little exaggeration to say that the Holodomor is one of the first dominoes to fall to bring us to this point of the war in Ukraine. How can you believe otherwise when Commies have been caught saying exactly what we’ve been saying: that the Holdomor was genocide and they chose us because they couldn’t allow us to be alive thanks to what all we represented and treasured: Freedom. (To say nothing of being considered too stupid, too ugly, too lazy, etc.,) And we all know P*tin has lied about the real reasons for the war as we all know the truth: he and Russia can’t stand that Ukraine has been trying to become more independent, to join the geopolitical stage. Same fucking reasons. Same fucking war crimes. Perhaps the same fucking end as the original mass murdering fuckhead of Russia.