Post 5, Enduring Effects

“Holodomor, or death by hunger, is believed to have been orchestrated by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, claiming the lives of up to 10 million people in 1932-33. So far, 13 countries, including the U.S. and Ukraine, formally recognize Stalin's forced starvation as a genocide _ a deliberate attempt to eliminate an ethnic group. The Ukrainian Canadian Congress had hoped Ottawa would offer similar acknowledgment. After meeting privately Wednesday with Harper, congress president Paul Grod said Wednesday the prime minister recognizes the famine as a tragedy, but not a genocide.( Harper remembers 1930s Ukrainian famine victims, but doesn't call it a genocide)”

            This quote is from a Canadian newspaper from 2007. This shows that even though 13 countries call what Joseph Stalin did in 1932 a genocide, the Canadian Prime Minister is still unable to call it what it truly is; a genocide. Many years after this monstrosity has happened, there are still people that are too scared to admit that some people have done wrong, and are doing wrong. Some people have also used Stalin’s techniques and created / changed their own countries’ governments as well. This shows that if you do even one thing you drop a pebble in the still lake of life; this will create a ripple effect, disturbing the water around it, causing problems for everything around. If you take this parable and relate it to life, if someone does something stupid, it does not only affect themselves, it will affect the entire world (given enough time...). this is exactly what happened with Stalin in the past, he did something stupid, and in return, people nearly a century later are still trying to decide what happened in that area, whether they are scared or not of what people think. Anyway, this is my thoughts on the enduring effects of the genocide.