Raphael Lemkin, a legal scholar who was the “father” of the UN’s genocide convention. In a speech delivered in 1953, he called the USSR’s policies toward Ukraine under Stalin “the classic example of Soviet genocide.” He viewed the famine in Ukraine as a key component of what he called the “Ukrainian genocide,” which he understood as a series of actions that also included the destruction and subjugation of Ukraine’s intellectuals and political elite, the liquidation of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and the government-directed settlement of Ukraine’s farmlands by non-Ukrainians, which took place in the wake of the famine of 1932–33.
You just proved the point verbatim Russia does not believe killing 6 million Ukrainians is genocide, just neglect for achievement of economic and political goals. That is exactly what the Duma posted. That is not acceptance that is denial worded in a way that tries to absolve the Russian people of their horrendous actions. Stalin is Russian as Georgia was part of Imperial Russia (not a seperate nation at the time of revolution) trying to say otherwise is fallacy. It’s like saying New Yorkians aren’t American.
