WINNIPEG, MANITOBA--(Marketwire - Nov. 15, 2012) - The Canadian
Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) is bringing to light new research
into Stalin's secret-police files on the 1932-33 genocide in
Ukraine, until recently shrouded in secrecy and denial. The CMHR
has organized a visit to Canada by world-renowned Ukrainian
researchers, including historian Stanislav Kulchytskyi, who have
worked to bring evidence of this genocide to public light.
Secret state archives in Ukraine - including hundreds of
thousands of Soviet secret-police orders and case files - have
only come to light in the past few years. The documents, many
still difficult to access, are adding hard proof about the
deliberate nature of atrocities that survivors and their
families (many in Canada) have long struggled to bring to public
attention. Under a memorandum of understanding signed this year
with Ukraine's national Holodomor museum, and in collaboration
with the Ukrainian Canadian Congress (Manitoba), CMHR is hosting
lectures and public events in