A Jewish group in Ukraine is objecting to a criminal case brought over the “Great Famine” committed in the 1930s.
The nation’s security service is pressing the case against a list offormer Soviet officials accused of committing the Holodomor, whichcaused the deaths of millions in Ukraine in 1932-33.
Most of the nameson the list were Jewish.
Ukrainian lawmaker Aleksandr Feldman, leader of the Ukrainian JewishCommittee, said last week that it was “a farce” to press the case.
“All organizers of the Great Famine are dead,” he said.
Last July, the Ukrainian Security Service released a list ofhigh-ranking Soviet state and Communist Party officials — as well asofficials from NKVD, the police force of Soviet Russia — thatessentially blamed Jews and Latvians responsible for perpetrating andexecuting the famine because most of the names on the list were Jewish.
The Ukrainian Jewish Committee called on the secret service torevise the list, which incited interethnic hatred, in order to clear upthe “inaccuracy.”
Feldman believes there is a danger that the “Holodomor Affair” materials are being used for political purposes.
In late May, security service head Valentin Nalivaychenko claimed ata meeting with representatives of the World Congress of Ukrainians that“Ukraine has collected enough evidence to bring a criminal caseregarding the famine, which was artificially created by the Bolshevikregime and caused mass death of citizens.”
Through the World Congress of Ukrainians, Nalivaychenko turned toleading foreign lawyers with a request to help find out thecircumstances connected with preparing and committing the genocide.