User talk:Dima G91

Having the richest soil in Europe proved to be an impossible asset to protect, but Ukrainians fought to the death to hold onto it. It was a fight for survival of the fittest. Ukraine was invaded and accupied by the Mongols, the Russians, the Swedes, the Poles, and the Ottoman Turks, the Austrians, and the Germans. Ukraine lost more people in WW II than any other European country, estimated at 11 million people.

The Many Jewish authors and writers are very anti-Ukrainian, with as much vehemence against Ukrainians as anti-Semitism. Bauer was a Jewish writer who targeted the Ukrainians as co-conspirators to the Nazis. In actual numbers, Ukrainians were far greater victims than were the Jews in World War II and before. They have lost many more than the Jews in the millions. Yehuda Bauer, in his book, A History of the Holocaust, goes out of his way to portray Ukrainians as the 'bad guys'. He is taking isolated instances of violence and stigmatizing the whole Ukrainian population as anti-Semitic. One must look at the whole evolutionary history of these two groups, the development of hatred along with the rise of nationalism, who really controlled Ukraine during this violence, and who controlled the violence against the Jews.

In 1932 Stalin imposed a famine-genocide, which took 10 million lives. However, Bauer glossed over and wrote, "By the mid-thirties, about 160,000 Jews were settled on land (southern Ukraine), 40,000 to 60,00 of them by the JDS. Bauer doesn't tell you that this was to repopulate the lands were the Ukrainian villages were totally wiped out by the artificially-created famine, ethnic cleansing of the Ukrainian population. Occupying the farms of the starved Ukrainians, the Jews were instrumental in hiding the fact that there was a genocide. Stalin brought in families from all over Russia to repopulate the missing, later arranging guided tours of international news reporters to show them that there was NO starvation here! Further, Stalin's infamous henchman Lazar Kaganovich, of Jewish origin, was responsible for collectivization, and engineered the terrible 1933 famine.

During World War II, Ukrainian population lost another 10 million people. Hitler occupied Ukraine totally, and the well-manicured fields and villages of Ukraine were repeatedly a battleground. Both Stalin and Hitler wanted to erase Ukrainians, both burned out Ukraine upon retreat, leaving uncounted numbers to die from starvation and exposure in the winter. Subsequently, Stalin publicly listed those casualties as Russian casualties, not Ukrainian. In later years, Khrushchev included 16 million civilians. The majority of these victims were non-Russian, mostly Ukrainians.

At the end of the war, Ukraine lay in ruins; the populations had declined by 25 percent, which is by approximately 10.5 million people; 6.8 million were killed or died of hunger or disease, and the remainder had been evacuated or deported to Soviet Asia as political prisoners or had ended up as slave labor or émigrés in Hitler's Germany.

Still many others estimate Ukrainian losses at 13.9 million. The Museum of World War II in Kiev (the capital of Ukraine) has a simple sign on marble which states: 'In 1940 in Ukraine lived 41.3 million people. In 1945, 27.4 million Ukrainians were left. About 8 million Ukrainian citizens (not soldiers) (some estimate 10 million) were killed in World War II.

According to the University of Hawaii democide table, Slavs were killed at twice the rate of the Jews. Also, it shows the heaviest democide at over 12 million USSR population. Ukrainians were listed as citizens of USSR and Poland; and Hitler occupied Ukraine for 3 years before he entered Russia.