To the Editor:
As reported in the Globe and Mail of Oct. 26, 2010, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper is the latest Canadian politician to pay tribute to victims of a supposedly Russian induced famine of 1933 that starved to death ten million Ukrainians (actual Soviet citizens).
Meanwhile the Saskatchewan party is using the Saskatchewan Legislature to pay tribute to the same phony famine. But, repeating eighty year old Nazi propaganda is proof of nothing.
Why do I have a problem with this particular famine of 1933? Because all the population demographics that can be dredged up for the Ukraine of 1933 show an increase in population, not a ten million population decrease.
This deliberate slandering of the Russian people goes back to the time the Russians overthrew the Czars and established a socialist style government for themselves. (A style of government much hated by capitalists).
The Russian people have been vilified and attacked ever since by Capitalist Governments.
Perhaps Mr. Harper could take some time out from paying tribute to victims of a phoney famine and explain why Canada along with some other capitalist countries sent troops to Russia to make war on the new Russian government.
For what compelling reason did Canada do that?
Henry Neufeld, Waldeck, Sask.
