“Since the unsuccessful revolution of 1830, the aspect of affairs has been entirely changed. Poland has been treated as a conquered province, and its nationality utterly annihilated. The Emperor Nicholas declared, by a ukase, that Poland had ceased to exist as a kingdom, and “that its inhabitants form but one nation with Russians, bound together by uniform and national sentiments. The diet was abolished, the Russian language substituted for the Polish in the tribunals, the University of Warsaw was closed, with the exception of the medical, theological, and astronomical classes, and its valuable collections of books, manuscripts, and medals, were carried off to Petersburg.” [source]
Harvard Professor Richard Pipes in his book “Russia Under the Old Regime“: “We have here clear proof that concealed behind lofty slogans of‘national tasks’ lay the very mundane reality of seizing resources to satisfy Russia’s insatiable appetite for land, and in the process, shoringup the internal position of the monarchy. The situation has not changed today. For example, census figures show that in Latvia and Estonia, occupied by the USSR in 1940 in consequence of the Nazi-Soviet pact, there has occurred in the subsequent thirty years (1940-70) a very substantial influx of Russians. This migration combined with mass deportations to Russia proper of Latvians and Estonians, has more than tripled the number of Russian inhabitants in these two conquered republics (from 326,000 to 1,040,000) and nearly tripled their proportionate share of the population (from io-8 per cent to 28-0 per cent).”
On September 20, 1953, Prof. Raphael Lemkin, the man who coined the term ‘Genocide” and already the author of the United Nations Convention against Genocide said the following in his speech about Holodomor in Ukraine:”the nation is too populous to be exterminated completely with any efficiency. However, its leadership, religious, intellectual, political, its select and determining parts, are quite small and therefore easily eliminated, and so it is upon these groups particularly that the full force of the Soviet axe has fallen, with its familiar tools of mass murder: deportation and forced labour, exile and starvation. The attack has manifested a systematic pattern, with the whole process repeated again and again to meet fresh outbursts of national spirit.
The first blow is aimed at the intelligentsia, the national brain, so as to paralyze the rest of the body. In 1920, 1926, and again in 1930–1933, teachers, writers, artists, thinkers, and political leaders, were liquidated, imprisoned or deported. According to the /Ukrainian Quarterly/ of Autumn 1948, 51,713 intellectuals were sent to Siberia in 1931 alone. At least 114 major poets, writers, and artists, the most prominent cultural leaders of the nation, have met the same fate. It is conservatively estimated that at least 75% of the Ukrainian intellectuals and professional men in Western Ukraine, Carpatho–Ukraine, and Bukovina have been brutally exterminated by the Russians…”
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