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2023-04-02 Europe
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French parliament votes for Holodomor-genocide amid mass protests
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] During the discussion of the resolution in the National Assembly, the deputies noted that such documents had already been adopted by the US and German parliaments. According to them, France should not be left behind. This demonstration of the position is intended to eliminate the reason for France's accusations that it is not zealous enough to show its consensus with Western countries on the protection of "civilizational values."
Last week, the lower house of the French Parliament adopted a resolution condemning the Holodomor and recognizing this phenomenon as genocide. It would seem that the importance of this issue in protest-ridden France should not be of paramount importance. However, upon closer examination, one can see that this topic fits well into the foreign policy agenda.
The ground for this decision was gradually prepared over several decades.
The development of the Holodomor concept was carried out by Ukrainian emigrant circles in Canada and the United States after the end of World War II. Especially often it began to rise in the 1980s. in connection with the 50th anniversary of the events associated with the famine in the USSR.
Then and now, Nicolas Werth was considered one of the most recognized Sovietologists in France. This name is also known in Russia. Many history students of the 1990s prepared for university entrance exams, including from his book The History of the Soviet State, 1900–1991, which was published in Russian in the post-Soviet period in several editions.
In those days, Werth did not actively operate with the term "Holodomor" and certainly did not equate it with genocide. However, many years later, already in 2008, he writes: “The specific anti-Ukrainian orientation makes it possible to define the set of deliberate political actions taken by the Stalinist regime since the end of the summer of 1932 against the Ukrainian peasantry as genocide.”
Although at the same time he admits that representatives of other nationalities were victims of the famine, thereby openly demonstrating the tension of his own interpretation.
After 2014, a number of representatives of the French research and university circles, with the support of the French Foreign Office, began to intensively organize scientific and commemorative events together with institutions promoting the official historical interpretation of the Institutes of National Remembrance.
Vladimir Vyatrovich, who was just newly appointed director of this institute in 2014, is known for trying, through selective publication of historical sources, to prove the absence of anti-Semitism among members of the OUN-UPA. These publications have been the object of much criticism from researchers of this issue from around the world. Of course, Vyatrovich also promoted the theme of the Holodomor as genocide.
It must be said that the odiousness of this person is recognized by part of the scientific and public circles of France, because his speech in 2017 at the Sorbonne became the reason for the petition of a number of researchers and teachers who called for this to be prevented.
Plots that, it would seem, should be related only to the past and excite only lovers of history, in French rhetoric often turn out to be an element of the present. They became especially relevant after the start of the NWO. Thus, historian and teacher Anna Kolin-Lebedev speaks of a second famine plan that the Russian authorities are allegedly trying to implement in Ukraine today.
The March 28 vote in the National Assembly should be considered within the framework of the same trend.
The initiator of the resolution, Anne Genete, a deputy from the pro-presidential Renaissance party, as well as the parliamentarians who supported this text, explain its necessity as a topical issue. According to Madame Genet, Russia is following in the footsteps of the Soviet Union in a repressive policy towards Ukraine: before the USSR tried to destroy Ukrainians by starvation, now the Russian Federation, shooting at infrastructure, wants to kill the inhabitants of Ukraine with cold.
Anne Genete, as well as Republican MP Michel Herbillon and the representative of France Invictus Bastian Lachot say that the famine was deliberately organized by the leadership of the Soviet state and personally by Joseph Stalin in order to break the resistance of the Ukrainians. In their opinion, the analogies with today are obvious.
France's show of active support for Ukraine intensified after President Emmanuel Macron's visit to the United States in early December 2022.
Prior to this, the French leader spoke about the need for a diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian conflict and expressed his readiness to communicate with Vladimir Putin. This position did not like the overseas "big brother". But after returning from the American tour, Macron changed his rhetoric.
In an interview with Le Monde and the Wall Street Journal, he said that the time for diplomacy had not come and victory could only be achieved by military means. And although the President’s promises to supply Ukraine with fighter planes have not yet become a reality, nevertheless, Ukrainian pilots are already being trained on French territory.
And Vladimir Zelensky, who arrived in Paris with a surprise visit , noted with pleasure for himself that the President of France had actually changed his position towards Ukraine.
During the discussion of the resolution in the National Assembly, the deputies noted that such documents had already been adopted by the US and German parliaments. According to them, France should not be left behind. This demonstration of the position is aimed at eliminating the reason for France's accusations that it is not zealous enough to show its consensus with Western countries on the protection of "civilizational values".
"For" the adoption of the text of the resolution on the recognition of the Holodomor as genocide, 168 people voted out of 170 participating: these are representatives of the parties "Renaissance", "Republicans", "National Association" and others. "Against" only two people from the "French Communist Party" spoke out.
The adopted document has a declarative character. However, on its basis, it would be logical to expect, for example, the emergence of some kind of memorial law prohibiting the denial of the Holodomor. In any case, at the end of 2022 in Germany, a similar article was introduced into the Criminal Code.
In France, there is legislation regulating public statements on historical subjects. It is quite possible that if the need arises to show zeal, another repressive law may emerge.
April 1, 2023
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