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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Romanov)

radical Ukrainian nationalism. This mixture of sincere human suffering, outright politicking and uneducated hostility is the most deplorable aspect of the discussion.

But I don't doubt that Holodomor was caused by natural factors and the Marxist-Leninist ideology, and that the Soviet Government used various methods, including famine, to fight peasantry. However, this had nothing to do with the Ukrainian nation's genocide.

If the Holodomor tragedy is removed from historical context, there are some geographic and ideological questions. In reality, the terrible famine of 1932-1933 was simply another episode in a grandiose peasant war, sometimes called "Green Noise" by historians, including foreign researchers.

I advise you to read "The Great Soviet Peasant War: Bolsheviks and Peasants, 1917-1933" by Italian scholar Andrea Graziosi who calls those events the greatest peasant war in European history, and with good reason.

However, that war began

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