He was not even born,” the 89-year-old Holodomor survivor said with a hint of a Ukrainian accent. The Holodomor was a yearlong genocidal famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932. In a statement emailed to Star Edmonton, MacDonald called it a freedom-of-speech issue and said the post is his contribution to the debate and it is his right to make that post. Sign Up NowShe called for any of MacDonald’s former students to come forward if they had heard any anti-Holodomor teachings during lectures. “We went to present that book to President David Turpin in the hopes that it would get him to recognize the severity of the Holodomor,” said Megan Brownlee, president of the Ukrainian Students’ Society.

Source: thestar December 03, 2019 02:03 UTC