Andrii Kozytskyi, a senior researcher in the Genocide Research Department and a historian, spoke on the First Western TV channel about the Museum’s new book, a collection entitled “The Current Difficulties Will Be Speedily Forgotten,” which includes documents and texts denying the Holodomor.
“The title of the publication is a quote by Walter Duranty, an American journalist of British origin, known for his denials of the Holodomor. One of his most common narratives was that this was not a famine at all – it was merely hardship, a trifle that would be forgotten very quickly. And in March 1933, when Gareth Jones, another British journalist, was the first to report on the real famine in Ukraine, Walter Duranty wrote back to him: ‘The present difficulties will be speedily forgotten’. And this tactic is still being used against Ukraine today: not a war, but a special military operation; not a famine, but difficulties, and they will be speedily forgotten,” explains Andrii Kozytskyi.
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