Valentyn Nalyvajchenko: by denying Holodomor, INM head buys himself lawsuit

This is how ex-head of the SBU Nalyvajchenko commented a statement by the new head of the INM and member of the Communist party who said that the 1932-1933 famine was merely an indirect consequence of collectivization and grain-procurement policy.

Nalyvajchenko reminded that attempts to deny the genocide can be brought before the international court in the Hague, same as were the attempts to conceal the genocide in Rwanda or Yugoslavia. Immunity of high officials does not matter for the court and the genocide crimes have no statute of limitations.

“If [the Ukrainian official] thinks that I’m kidding, let him call Naomi Campbell who showed too little discretion in accepting presents from the Liberia dictator – and who now stands in the dock,” Nalyvajchenko warned, according to UNIAN.

Nalyvajchenko reminded that on Jan. 13, 2010, Kyiv’s court of appeals ruled, based on the investigation done by SBU, that in 1932-1933 Stalin-led Communists engineered the genocide against the Ukrainian people, starving to death 3.941 million Ukrainians.

V. Nalyvajchenko believes that the Institute of National Memory cannot be headed by a Communist for whom Communist ideas take priority over historical truth.

After Yanukovych came to power, he replaced the INM director, giving the post to his Communist allies.