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| Brussels cafe serves tree bark to commemorate Holodomor |
| 2018-05-20 |
| The Ukrainian leadership academy held a sidewalk cafe in Brussels near the European Parliament. Its aim was to raise awareness about the Holodomor, Stalin’s artificial famine which took the lives of at least 4 million Ukrainians in 1932-1933. Titled UNCOUNTED since 1932, it served visitors food which was the only nutrition for Ukrainian peasants during those years after the Soviet authorities confiscated their farm produce. Afterwards, the death tolls were classified and the Holodomor itself was not mentioned during Soviet times. The Belgians were served soup from pine cones and needles, bread from mashed grass, and pancakes from tree bark – “dishes” which Ukrainians ate in order to survive. The organizers state that their intention is to raise awareness about the tragedy in the EU and achieve the recognition of Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians. More at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #4 willow bark tea is the natural source of aspirin Should be teaing mushrooms. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-05-20 16:02 |
| #3 So the Ukrainians are celebrating Ramadan by not serving food? |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2018-05-20 16:00 |
| #2 Tree bark....willow bark tea is the natural source of aspirin. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-05-20 15:05 |
| #1 “Conditions are bad, but there is no famine. But – to put it brutally – you can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs.” -- The New York Times, 1933 The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting in the Ukraine. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy 2018-05-20 02:42 |