Holodomor denial
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Denial of the Holodomor is the claim that a 1932–33 man-made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine, did not occur or was exaggerated.
The government of the Soviet Union officially denied the occurrence of the famine and suppressed information about it from its very beginning until the 1980s. This Soviet denial was also circulated by some Western journalists and intellectuals. Most prominently, The New York Times' Walter Duranty echoed Soviet denials in his reporting during the height of the famine.
According to Jurij Dobczansky, Holodomor denial is easily distinguished from serious scholarship, and "generally consists of especially vitriolic anti-Western and anti-Ukrainian tirades," often accompanied by accusations of foreign influence, Nazi sympathies, or ulterior motives.: 160
Rebekah Moore argues that Western recognition of the Holodomor reflects the broader politics of genocide and victimhood, emphasizing the ongoing struggle for acknowledgment, particularly among the Ukrainian diaspora.