THE GENOCIDE INTENTION IN THE LIGHT OF NEW DOCUMENTS ON THE HOLODOMOR OF 1932 – 1933 IN UKRAINE

Ihor  YAKUBOVSKYI

doi:10.24919/2519-058X.18.226565

Authors

Ihor YAKUBOVSKYI PhD (Architecture), Deputy Director of the Holodomor Research Institute, a branch of the National Museum of the Holodomor Genocide, Ukraine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9986-6469

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24919/2519-058X.18.226565

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to identify and analyze additional archival documents that allow proving more thoroughly the USSR leadership’s special intention existence to commit the Genocide against the Ukrainians, organizing the Holodomor in the USSR, the North Caucasus and Kuban in 1932 – 1933. The methodology of the research involves the use of the source methods, the analysis with the help of previously unknown documents, aimed at accumulating new evidence concerning the Genocide intention. The scientific novelty consists, primarily, in the fact that new archival sources have been introduced into the scientific circulation, which expanded the possibilities for the Holodomor legal qualification in 1932 – 1933 as the Genocide crime. For the first time, the documents have been found and analyzed showing that at least in the first half of 1933 the regional authorities required the villages, towns and districts authorities to send comprehensive information on the mortality rate dynamics in different age groups in the Holodomor every ten days, but the regional authorities did not take any measures in order to stop the mass murder by starvation, although they received reports regularly. The Conclusions. The revealed documents concerning the Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic testified that the Holodomor organizers and executors of 1932 – 1933 created a special vertically integrated system aimed at constant monitoring of the mortality rate in the Ukrainian countryside, which provided for updating the information every five days at the district level and every ten days at the regional levels. The statistics and reports on Baltic region for the first half of 1933, which were regularly provided to the Moldavian Regional Committee of the CP (b) U, reflected a steady increase in the mortality rate in various villages and age groups. However, the information did not help, any decisive actions were not taken in order to help those people, who were starving, which only emphasized the government’s intention to starve the planned amount of population to death.

Key words: the Holodomor, the Genocide, the Genocide intention, Ukraine, the Holodomor victims.

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