From Maia Mikhaluk (596th day): The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has voted for the recognition of Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
In 2023, 91 years will pass since 1932, when the USSR authorities organized purposeful measures to seize grain and other food products from the residents of Ukraine, which led to the Holodomor, one of the greatest tragedies in Ukrainian history. Both in Ukraine and in many other countries, the Holodomor of 1932-1933 was later recognized as a genocide of Ukrainians by the Stalinist regime.
“…Four to five million died, roughly 15 percent of Soviet Ukraine’s 30 million inhabitants. Even Mao’s 1958–62 Great Leap Forward famine, during which some 36 million Chinese died, was proportionally milder, amounting to 5 percent of China’s total population of about 700 million.” (from: “Demographic Trends in Ukraine: Past, Present, and Future,” by Anatole Romaniuk and Oleksandr Gladun. Population and Development Review, 2015, pp.318-9.)
Some historians estimate that the losses might have been as high as 10 million people. In a country with fertile soil and hardworking people thousands were dying daily of starvation. In June 1933 28,000 people died daily!
On August 7, 1932, the “Law on five ears of grain” was adopted – the Resolution “On the Safekeeping Property of state enterprises, collective farms and cooperatives” A sculpture of the girl that greets visitors to the Holodomor Museum in Kyiv has the symbolic five ears of grain in her hands as a reminder of the bloody law. According to information published in 1988 by the Pravda newspaper, less than five months after the adoption of the “Law on Five Ears of Grain,” 54,645 people were convicted under its articles. Stealing five ears of grain was punishable by death.
One of the best studies of this genocide was done by Anne Appelbaum in her book Red Famine. Anyone who still believes that Ukrainians and ruzzians are brotherly nations should read this book or at least some articles about Holodomor.
Many countries worldwide are only now recognizing it as genocide because, in the past, they didn’t want to annoy ruzzia which continues to deny the crime. But now as the world witnesses another ruzzian crime against Ukraine, it’s not so “scary” to recognize the crime that took place 90 years ago. These are all chapters from the same book.
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A year ago:
From Lxxx (Day 233): Dear brothers and sisters, We had a night without sirens. Praise the Lord!
It’s a holiday today – the day of Fatherland Defender and this holiday has a special meaning now. Many of my friends of different ages are now in the army, protecting our land. We are very proud of the guys from our church who are fighting for us. We are proud of the workers of our medical clinic, who are now serving in the army, providing medical assistance to our soldiers. I want to say separately about the army of chaplains who serve in the spiritual field in this war. They all are our heroes today.
Photos of Lyudmila, the plants she is taking care of and her cat
Among all things of yesterday there was a very special moment. Sometimes you know exactly that the meeting you have is arranged by God. On Thursday we have a Bible study for the group of refugees in our church, I came earlier to help Valeriy, our elder, who leads the Bible study, to set up chairs, prepare refreshments and drinks for the meeting.
One lady of the group, Lyudmyla, came earlier. Lyudmila is from Kharkiv and stays at the building of our Christian clinic and she loves taking care of the plants there, it brings her joy and at the same time is a recovering therapy for her. Her cat Marusya lives with her there.
It was clear that there was something on her heart. We began to talk and she said that she knew about God from her childhood, her grandmother was a believer and Lyudmila considered herself to be a believer, too. She used to go to the church on holidays was very respectful of church traditions, but now she feels that something was missing in her life.
Our elder Valeriy
She has been visiting our church for a while and could hear the gospel not just once. But she needed to have the personal talk with Valeriy and have all her questions answered. Some people have a special gift of sharing the gospel and they do it in a special way. I think Valeriy can do it addressing the hearts of people in such a way that they see this beauty of the gospel.
Yesterday I talked to our counselor, Roman. We were talking about our future refugee center and tried to see new directions of our work that we can start, we discussed the aspects of the work we all are doing now and how it can be integrated in one place.
We found a very nice place for the center with good location and if God blesses us to buy it we will start the work there right away.
Roman’s photo from Facebook with a sign “move from the problem to the solution”
Roman is busy like all of us. He does counseling in the office and online counseling, he is also an active blogger and you can see his videos on Facebook and Instagram where he addresses different psychological topics, gives practical tips for people with different problems and he teaches psychological self-help techniques (panic attacks, psychology of relationships, depression, anxiety, psychosomatics, urgent help for refugees, etc.)
Few days ago he did live broadcasting of a very important topic of today, he talked about survivor’s syndrome, when people who survived in mortal danger feel guilty thinking of those who died. Many people were able not only to listen but participate, sharing their experience and asking questions.
Roman with his wife Tanya
Roman’s wife, Tanya, works as a nurse in the intensive therapy of one of Odessa hospitals. She works very hard now and her work is hard emotionally. Roman asks to pray for her health.
Please, pray for our counselors, for the work we do and for us to bring fruits.
Please, pray with us for organizing a refugee center in Odessa and for a facility where the center will be located.
In Christ, Lxxx
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