RE: [Cz-L] Languages of the Ukraine

My pleasure, Edgar. Though I don't generally participate in your group
discussions, I read them and often find them fascinating, with frequent
vivid reminders of the culture in which I grew up. --Francis

-----Original Message-----
From: Edgar Hauster [mailto:bconcept_at_hotmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 11:21 AM
To: Francis Mechner
Cc: Czernowitz Discussion Group
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Languages of the Ukraine

Excellent reading tip, dear Francis, thank yo so much; just ordered the
German translation!

Edgar Hauster
Lent - The Netherlands

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> From: fmechner_at_panix.com
> To: mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu; HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET
> CC: Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Languages of the Ukraine
> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2014 18:16:02 -0500
>
> For a scholarly and detailed account of the large-scale starvation and
> other atrocities perpetrated first by Stalin and then continued by
> Hitler in the Ukraine, see the book "Badlands: Europe Between Hitler
> and Stalin" by Timothy Snyder, published in 2010 by Basic Books, New
> York. --Francis Mechner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bounce-112669079-15100842_at_list.cornell.edu
> [mailto:bounce-112669079-15100842_at_list.cornell.edu] On Behalf Of
> Miriam Taylor
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2014 2:58 PM
> To: HARDY BREIER
> Cc: CZERNOWITZ-L
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Languages of the Ukraine
>
> This is what I found on Google:
>
> "Joseph Stalin, leader of the Soviet Union, set in motion events
> designed to cause a famine in the Ukraine to destroy the people there
> seeking independence from his rule.
> As a result, an estimated 7,000,000 persons perished in this farming
> area, known as the breadbasket of Europe, with the people deprived of
> the food they had grown with their own hands."
>
> Mimi

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