The decision will be adopted by the various main parliamentary blocs in the Bundestag, in the ruling coalition formed by the Social Democratic Party, the Green Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, with the conservative opposition represented by the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union.
The great famine
- The famine that occurred during the Soviet era, historians differ about it, as some consider it a “genocide” of the Ukrainians ordered by the leader of the Soviet Union at the time, Joseph Stalin, while others believe that it was a general famine that included various regions of the Soviet Union at the time, and was not limited to Ukraine only, and that it was not Planned, but rather the product of a combination of drought and rainfall scarcity factors, with mismanagement and Soviet government planning.
- The famine occurred between 1932 and 1933, following the decline in agricultural crops, and Stalin’s police confiscating grain and other foodstuffs from farms. Between 3 and 4 million Ukrainians died of starvation as a result of what is called in Ukraine “Holodomor”, meaning “extermination by starvation”.
Details of the draft decision
- The famine, which Ukraine celebrates its annual anniversary every fourth Sunday of November, falls on the list of inhumane crimes committed by totalitarian regimes that destroyed millions of human lives in Europe, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, “according to what was stated in the draft resolution, which I reviewed. It is the Agence France-Presse.
- The project adds that this crime is “part of our common history as Europeans,” stressing that “the whole of Ukraine was affected by famine and repression, not only its grain-growing regions.”
- He concludes, “From the current perspective, this is clearly genocide on a historical and political level.”
- The Bundestag “derives from Germany’s past a special responsibility, which is to identify and deal with crimes against humanity within the international community,” according to the draft resolution.
German Chancellor Olaf Schultz and Foreign Minister Analina Berbock, through their spokesmen on Friday, expressed their support for the draft resolution.
Russia absolutely rejects this description, stressing that the great famine that struck the Soviet Union in the early thirties of the last century was not only Ukrainians, but also Russians, Kazakhs, Volga Germans and other Soviet peoples at the time.
Selective and utilitarian employment
- The expected German step by defining the Ukrainian famine in the thirties of the last century as a “genocide”, researchers and observers see in it a shining example of how historical tragedies can be turned selectively into cards of pressure and revenge, in the context of crises and conflicts between major countries, and that this may open the door wide for expediency rather than principled abuse. In opening sensitive and divisive files and employing them in the context of the game of interests and their bargaining, as is the case, for example, with the issue of the Armenian genocide in the year 1915 in the Ottoman Empire, and it is used as a pressure card on current Turkey.
The vulgarity of concepts of international justice
The researcher and expert on European and German affairs, Maher Al-Hamdani, said, in an interview with Sky News Arabia: “It is unfortunate that Germany resorted to inserting human principles and slogans that carry a supreme ideal value, in the context of settling scores and political rivalries, such as the one taking place between Russia and Western countries, so the Germans classified the famine that occurred. Ukraine at the beginning of the thirties of the twentieth century, after a silence that extended for about 100 years, as genocide and in light of the severe crisis that is taking place between the Russians and the Western bloc, indicates that this is a scandalous reformist use of this term within the framework of temporary political propaganda, and this detracts from these values and concepts that It is drawn into the game of interests, and thus loses its value and makes it vulnerable to vulgarity.
And he continues: “Thus, the exploitation of some historical events by Western capitals in their sharp conflict with Moscow, gives Russia as well, and in return, the right to consider what happened from the Nazis’ siege of the city of Stalingrad, for example, as a genocide, as millions of Russians lost their lives in it and in the war at that time. with Nazism in general.
Al-Hamdani adds: “In this way, these legal descriptions that are used to condemn crimes against humanity will become mere tools that are inserted into the context of conflicts and political rivalries between the countries of the world, and thus the great achievements accumulated by humanity to achieve and frame human rights since the Second World War are lost with the adoption of the concepts of collective killing.” Crimes against humanity, war crimes and the penalties resulting from them, due to the politicization of these concepts and their transformation into a means of opposing and settling scores,” concludes the expert on European affairs.
politicized decision
In turn, the researcher and expert in international affairs, Lana Badfan, said in an interview with Sky News Arabia: “What is being done is a politicized decision to use past tragedies as cards for revenge and maliciously against the current Russia, noting that this great famine did not occur only in the Soviet Republic of Ukraine, but rather took place in Republics of Kazakhstan, Chechnya and many other territories of the former Soviet Union.
Russian novel
Badvan explains that: “The attempt to pin the blame on Russia now will reflect negatively on the complexity of the current crisis more between Russia and the countries of the Western Atlantic system, because the Russian narrative differs from the Ukrainian and Western version of this famine, as the republics of the Soviet Union were sharing crops and wealth at the time, due to the scarcity of rain and the decline of The production of grain and grain as a result, which caused this disaster, and for this reason, Moscow sees in such a German endeavor a deliberate abuse of it and its history during the Soviet era.
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