Statue of Stalin in front of the museum of Stalin in his native town in Georgia http://flickr.com/photos/nadjenka /729847082/

My deepest sympathies go out to all the survivers and families who lost members due to stalin.
Marx himself after having seen the pervertion of his idea of communism denounced it. a dear friend of mine her in america vera petrovna lived through the famine and would tell me about it. don\'t hold your breath for an appology from moskow it would be admitting to something inhumane and you know politicians won\'t admit they were, are, or will always be wrong!!!

I remember highlighting this genocide back in the seventies. Then as now \'Uncle Joe\' as far as the UK was concerned, could do no wrong. The Sun newspaper (could have been The Star) said the pictures I showed of starving Ukrainians, their corpses, were Nazi concentration camp victims. I got the pictures from the Swedish Press - that were taken before Hitler even came to power. So much for truth in the media.
I might point out to one contributor: Axis troops, during the invasion of Russia (through Ukrainian territory), were hailed as saviours as they made their way through Ukraine. Axis troops were surprised to see pictures of Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian patriot, on the walls of Ukrainian homes.
He and, I think Amundsen, brought tremendous relief to the Ukrainians during the artificial famine. For this he was knighted by the British government of the time. This was removed when his sympathies for National Socialist Europe became apparent.

People forget Lenin was not the problem. It was Stalin.

AND to be sure: The Communist Party of Moscow and their ideological henchmen and the KGB... All working together for their socialist paradise.

Forget Lenin you say!!!!!!!!!!
Lenin started the 20th century bloodshed! He has the blood of millions on his hands and soul!
Correct! Stalin was a butcher! You take the numbers and he was worst then Hitler!!
Lenin--Stalin--Hitler --all 3 in the 20th century!!!!
Ukraine peoples--REMOVE STATUES of murderer\'s and thugs and evil!!
I look forward to walking your cities--and NOT seeing these statues of people who caused horrendous misery upon you.

When I visited Ukraine in 2005, to celebrate Ukraine\'s independence from Moscow, I was shocked to see statues of Lenin still up in many cities in Ukraine. As I understand, Moscow\'s communists murdered more than ten million innocent Ukrainians - poor farmers who believed in private property and individual rights..., and not in WWI or WWII, to build the grand secular state of the USSR . It\'s like if a Jewish man visits his homeland, Israel, and sees many statues of Hitler everywhere... I hope the good people of Ukraine remove ALL the evil symbols and statues of the USSR in their public spaces that glorify Moscow\'s old Empire and its socialist dogma. The murdered souls of Holodomor - genocide against the nation of Ukraine - deserve nothing less.

The latest on the statues is, they\'re going to be removed from the public, including the Lenin statues, which I was surprised to see, when I first went to Ukraine around 2004. I go to Kyiv and Odessa twice yearly. When I\'m in Kyiv, I always have to walk near the Lenin statue off Kreshchatik (main st). I heard that\'s the only one that will be left in place, for historic reason. That\'s the one I wanted to see go. But the rest will be gone, in the near future.

My fiancee\'s mother is a Holodomor survivor. My stomach was turning, by some of the things they went through in order to survive.

Thanks to people like Walter Duranty for keeping this atrocity hidden for so many decades. And to think he won a Pulitzer prize. All should know about what happened, so the world will never allow this to happen again.

Officially or unofficially, I doubt the citizens of Ukraine will keep the Lenin statue in Kyiv around much longer. I know what I would do with my free time in Ukraine.

I think the late Malcolm Muggeridge was the only foreign journalist corageous enough to report the truth of what really happened. For that, he was mocked at home and threatened by Soviet authorities if he ever dared return to the USSR. Despite offers, he did not sell his integrity (money and women) to the Soviet propganda machine as Duranty did.