In an American jurisdiction, such laws would run afoul of
the First Amendment; but Europe, especially former Nazi
states such a Germany and Austria, are very sensitive about
the holocaust.

-Johnny  (P.S.  It wasn't just the Jews who were
systematically exterminated.  Slavic peoples were also fair
game, and millions of them were murdered, too.)

Mel Gibson's dad's name is David Irving?

-goro-

This is flipping ridiculous. I am as pro jew as the next person but
it's totally an issue of free speech. I'll never visit austria! If I
posted some of that stuff  that I posted in Austria I'd be a
prisonbitch by now!

I find it ironic that people are still allowed to be members of
communist parties, vocally support communism, wear che t-shirts, etc in
Europe, even though bolshevik jews murdered more people than the nazis
did.

Remembering Ukraine's Unknown Holocaust

[How the High Jews in the Soviet Government Killed Millions
in the USSR and Still Hide It From Us...]

Archived for Scholarly Study

By ERIC MARGOLIS Contributing Foreign Editor

As Britain's socialist government cleared the way for a gaudy show
trial of that Great Satan of the left, Chile's Gen. Augusto Pinochet,
the 65th anniversary of this century's bloodiest crime was utterly
ignored. Leftists now baying for Pinochet's head don't want to be
reminded of the Unknown Holocaust.

In 1932, Soviet leader Josef Stalin unleashed genocide in Ukraine.
Stalin determined to force Ukraine's millions of independent farmers -
called kulaks - into collectivized Soviet agriculture, and to crush
Ukraine's growing spirit of nationalism.

Faced by resistance to collectivization, Stalin unleashed terror and
dispatched 25,000 fanatical young party militants from Moscow - earlier
versions of Mao's Red Guards - to force 10 million Ukrainian peasants
into collective farms. Secret police units of OGPU began selective
executions of recalcitrant farmers.

When Stalin's red guards failed to make a dent in this immense number,
OGPU was ordered to begin mass executions.

But there were simply not enough Chekists (secret police) to kill so
many people, so Stalin decided to replace bullets with a much cheaper
medium of death - mass starvation.

All seed stocks, grain, silage and farm animals were confiscated from
Ukraine's farms. (Ethiopia's Communist dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam
used the same method in the 1970s to force collectivization: the
resulting famine caused one million deaths.)

OGPU agents and Red Army troops sealed all roads and rail lines.
Nothing came in or out of Ukraine. Farms were searched and looted  of
food and fuel. Ukrainians quickly began to die of hunger, cold and
sickness.

When OGPU failed to meet weekly execution quotas, Stalin sent henchman
Lazar Kaganovitch to destroy Ukrainian resistance. Kaganovitch, the
Soviet ZHID Eichmann, made quota, shooting 10,000 Ukrainians weekly.
Eighty percent of all Ukrainian intellectuals were executed.  A
Ukrainian party member named Nikita Khruschchev helped supervise  the
slaughter.

During the bitter winter of 1932-33, mass starvation created by
Kaganovitch and OGPU hit full force. Ukrainians ate their pets,  boots
and belts, plus bark and roots. Some parents even ate infant children.

The precise number of Ukrainians murdered by Stalin's custom-made
famine and Cheka firing squads remains unknown to this day.  The KGB's
archives, and recent work by Russian historians, show at  least seven
million died.  Ukrainian historians put the figure at nine million, or
higher. Twenty-five percentof Ukraine's population was exterminated.
Millions of victims

Six million other farmers across the USSR were starved or shot
during collectivization. Stalin told Winston Churchill he liquidated
10 million peasants during the 1930s. Add mass executions by the
Cheka in Estonia,Latvia and Lithuania; the genocide of three million
Muslims in the USSR; massacres of Cossacks and Volga Germans and
Soviet industrial genocide accounted for at least 40 million victims,
not including 20 million war dead.

Kaganovitch and many senior OGPU officers (later, NKVD) were Jewish.
The predominance of Jews among Bolshevik leaders, and the frightful
crimes and cruelty inflicted by Stalin's Cheka on Ukraine, the Baltic
states and Poland, led the victims of Red Terror to blame the Jewish
people for both communism and their suffering. As a direct result,
during the subsequent Nazi occupation of Eastern Europe, the region's
innocent Jews became the target of ferocious revenge by Ukrainians,
Balts and Poles.

While the world is by now fully aware of the destruction of Europe's
Jews by the Nazis, the story of the numerically larger holocaust in
Ukraine has been suppressed, or ignored.  Ukraine's genocide occurred
8-9 years before Hitler began the Jewish Holocaust, and was committed,
unlike Nazi crimes, before the world's gaze. But Stalin's murder of
millions was simply denied,  or concealed by a left-wing conspiracy of
silence that continues to this day.

In the strange moral geometry of mass murder, only Nazis are guilty.
Socialist luminaries like Bernard Shaw, Beatrice and Sidney Webb and
PM Edouard Herriot of France, toured Ukraine during 1932-33 and
proclaimed reports of famine were false. Shaw announced: "I did  not
see one under-nourished person in Russia." New York Times correspondent
Walter Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his  Russian reporting,
wrote claims of famine were "malignant propaganda." Seven million
people were dying around them, yet these fools saw nothing. The New
York Times has never repudiated Duranty's lies.

Modern leftists do not care to be reminded their ideological and
historical roots are entwined with this century's greatest crime - the
inevitable result of enforced social engineering and Marxist theology.

Western historians delicately skirt the sordid fact that the
governments of Britain, the U.S. and Canada were fully aware of the
Ukrainian genocide and Stalin's other monstrous crimes. Yet they
eagerly welcomed him as an ally during World War II. Stalin, who
Franklin Roosevelt called "Uncle Joe," murdered four times more people
than Adolf Hitler.

None of the Soviet mass murderers who committed genocide were ever
brought to justice. Lazar Kaganovitch died peacefully in Moscow a few
years ago, still wearing his Order of the Soviet Union, and enjoying a
generous state pension.