MELITOPOL REFLECTIONS OF THE NATIONAL TRAGEDY OF HOLODOMOR

The Holodomor in Melitopol region was a fragment of a long hybrid battle between the Russian- Bolshevik authorities and the Ukrainian people. Stalin's genocide by means of the Holodomor, terror, and deportations was aimed at destroying the conscious part of the Ukrainian political nation in order to undermine its ability to self-determination. The "devastating blow" of the famine was inflicted, first of all, on the rural periphery of the USSR, where ethnic Ukrainians made up about 90% of the population. However, the Holodomor did not choose according to nationality - Bulgarian, German, Russian, and Czech villages were also affected in the Melitopol region. It was the common Calvary of the people and its deadly cathedral. Our calculations of the victims of famine in Melitopol region need to be clarified, but they testify to many times greater losses in this "quiet war" than in other pre-war years. The Moscow Center committed the crime of genocide both in Melitopol region and throughout Ukraine. The leadership of the colonial republic, in fact, admitted to complicity in the genocide, when the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CP(b)U V. Kosior reported to Stalin on March 15, 1933, that the "starvation" was a means of teaching unruly collective farm workers mind. Stalin's genocide was a deliberate implementation of Lenin's strategic plan to liberate fertile lands from the "surplus" population and at the same time tame the rebellious Ukrainian peasants with hunger. A pre-emptive strike was made against the republic, which, according to Stalin, threatened imperial integrity with separatism and undermined the power of Moscow. Russian's new attempt to defeat Ukraine in an existential war and the latest genocide of the people, in particular, in the temporarily occupied multinational Melitopol region, convinces that the process of increasing knowledge about the Holodomor at the regional level is receiving new momentum and actualization.