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Two almost forgotten mass genocides are now made into movies.

I would suggest viewing both as a reminder of what happened and should not be repeated. 

Bitter Harvest aka the Holomodor is set in early 1930s  Soviet Union.  Stalin manipulated a manmade famine in the Ukraine.

http://www.bitterharvestfilm.com/ 

About 7 million Ukrainians and another 2 million other ethnics were purposely starved to death to destroy private farming and initiate collective farms.  The communists thought this would generate more wheat and funds to build communist.  It didn't, of course, but government did gain control of agriculture.  This was the first time the NY Times was a genocide denier.  They sent their stooge, Walter Duranty, in to prove the rumors of genocide were false.  He even received a Pulitzer award for his fake news.  Mao used the same strategy to gain control of agriculture in China. The North Vietnamese did the same in South Vietnam.

The second movie is The Promisehttp://thepromise.movie/

The Promise takes place from 1915 to 1917 in the Ottoman Empire.  About 1.5 million Armenians were systematically murdered by the Turks.  Armenians were indigenous Christians within the Empire and some of the their best soldiers.  The Muslim leadership feared the Armenians would side with the Russians during WWI.  The successor government to the Ottoman Empire long denied the genocide.  As the new secular government was not responsible for the actions of the old empire, they should have simply acknowledged the genocide and that they were not responsible for it.  Unfortunately, the new leader Erdogan has destroyed the old secular government and is dead set on reestablishing the caliphate of the Ottomans.  Just as the Persians are set on reestablishing the Persian Empire.  Both are willing to die to the last Arab to do so.

BTW, the second time the NY Times denied genocide was the Holocaust.  The Polish government-in-exile gave evidence.  The Times refused to acknowledge the Holocaust  until the Allies practically marched into the death camps' gates.

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"BTW, the second time the NY Times denied genocide was the Holocaust.  The Polish government-in-exile gave evidence.  The Times refused to acknowledge the Holocaust  until the Allies practically marched into the death camps' gates."----Dire

The NYT probably would have amnesia on Stalin's and Lenin's purges as well. Before Schicklgruber even killed his first Jew or Gypsy, the Soviets had at least a 30 million head start.

http://www.ukemonde.com/genoci...rgolisholocaust.html

Stanky posted:

"BTW, the second time the NY Times denied genocide was the Holocaust.  The Polish government-in-exile gave evidence.  The Times refused to acknowledge the Holocaust  until the Allies practically marched into the death camps' gates."----Dire

The NYT probably would have amnesia on Stalin's and Lenin's purges as well. Before Schicklgruber even killed his first Jew or Gypsy, the Soviets had at least a 30 million head start.

http://www.ukemonde.com/genoci...rgolisholocaust.html

It was during the Molotov - von Ribbentrop pact that Germany learned much from their Russian neighbors, like how to set up a gulag of concentration camps. The minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, learned how to sharpen his craft, as well.

There is a much more recent act of genocide, during the Clinton administration --Rwanda.  Susan Rice actively participated in, not only the denial that genocide was occurring, but ensured that UN troops, not US, were severely reduced so the remainder could only stand and watch the slaughter.

"Rice was part of Bill Clinton’s National Security Team that in 1994 refused any involvement whatsoever in the Rwanda genocide, leaving more than 800,000 men, women, and children to be hacked to death by machete in the fastest genocide ever recorded. The Clinton Administration had just been spooked by the Black Hawk down incident in Somalia and wanted no further foreign entanglements. But the lengths to which they went to deny assistance to the Tutsis, with Rice being central to the decision-making process, will forever live in infamy.

But not content to insist on American non-involvement, the Clinton administration went a step further by obstructing the efforts of other nations to stop the slaughter. On April 21, 1994, the Canadian UN commandeer in Rwanda, General Romeo Dallaire, declared that he required only 5000 troops to bring the genocide to a rapid halt. In addition, a single bombing run against the RTLM Hutu Power radio transmitting antenna would have made it impossible for the Hutus to coordinate their genocide. But on the very same day, as Phillip Gourevitch explains in his definitive account of the Rwandan genocide, We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We will Be Killed with Our Families, the Security Council, with the Clinton Administration’s blessing, ordered the UN force under Dallaire reduced by ninety percent to a skeleton staff of 270 troops who would powerlessly witness the slaughter to come. This, in turn, was influenced by Presidential Decision Directive 25, which “amounted to a checklist of reasons to avoid American involvement in UN peacekeeping missions,” even though Dallaire did not seek American troops and the mission was not peacekeeping but genocide prevention. Indeed, Madeleine Albright, the American Ambassador to the UN, opposed leaving even this tiny UN force. She also pressured other countries “to duck, as the death toll leapt from thousands to tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands... the absolute low point in her career as a stateswoman.”

In a 2001 article published in The Atlantic, Samantha Power, author of the Pulitzer-Prize winning A Problem of Hell and arguably the world’s foremost voice against genocide and who currently serves on the National Security Council as an aide to President Obama, referred to Ambassador Susan Rice and her colleagues in the Clinton Administration as Bystanders to Genocide. She quotes Rice in the 2002 book as saying, “If we use the word ‘genocide’ and are seen as doing nothing, what will be the effect on the November congressional election?” Rice’s subordination of a human tragedy of epic proportions to partisan politic interests mirrors the current allegations of why she denied a terror attack in Benghazi. Rice then joined Madeline Albright, Anthony Lake and Warren Christopher as part of a coordinated effort not only to impede UN action to stop the Rwanda genocide, but to minimize public opposition to American inaction by removing words like “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” from government communications on the subject.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...nda-p_b_2217779.html

 

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