Mar 15 2009
Have you heard of Golodomor?
It is called one of the worst years in the Soviet Union. During 1932-1933, Joseph Stalin had designed a policy for Industrialization. The Communist governments at the time, had taken the grains from the peasants and exported most of the Republic’s grains to the west causing “Mass or Great Hunger” in the region. It has been estimated that approximately 6-8 million peasants had died during that year which is now being termed as holodomor instead of Golodomor liking it to the Holocaust.
They are now questioning whether the act was an act of genocide. There is a big debate about it in the European Union on whether it is to be considered a genocidal famine yet it cannot be proven because of attempts by the nationalists to alter historical facts. To tell you the truth, this is the first time I’ve heard of it. Unfortunately, things like this occur somewhere in the globe even today.
There is still a lot that I don’t know and it saddens me that governments allow these things to happen. They turn on a blind-eye and proceed to do such things for personal gain. What can we do as Christians to prevent these? I know that as bloggers, we now have to power to print something to let the world know of truths that occur around us. We should all act as reporters and use the blogging medium to reveal human rights violations anywhere. We have to do our part. WE NEED TO HAVE OUR VOICE HEARD.
