Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide - to be held at Vanier College, Montreal, Quebec, March 31 to April 4, 2025.
Note Speaker on Monday, March 31, 2025, 12:00-1:30pm - please circulate
PROF. ROMAN SERBYN
Topic:"STALIN'S GENOCIDE AND PUTIN'S GENOCIDAL INVASION"
This talk will compare Stalin's 1930's genocidal war against the Ukrainians to Putin's genocidal was against Ukraine started in 2014 (Crimea) in light of the 1948 UN Convention on Genocide.Dr. Serbyn considers the most relevant points of the convention, specifically the "intent to destroy".The Holodomor was the genocide of millions by the Soviet regime to quell Ukrainian national revival.
Professor Serbyn argues that "genocide against Ukrainians" refers to all the criminal acts of Stalin's regime and cannot be limited to "starvation by famine".
He then considers the genocidal invasion of Ukraine by Putin's Russia its systematic Russification of Ukrainian citizens.
He asserts that both these events are attempts to wipe out unique Ukrainian sovereignty, identity and peoplehood and to assimilate Ukrainians into Russian identity, thus the 'intent to destroy" envisioned under the Genocide Convention.