Editing Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (section)

=== On the Holodomor ===
Solzhenitsyn gave a speech in America to [[AFL–CIO]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], on 30 June 1975 in which he said that the system created by the [[Bolsheviks]] in 1917 caused dozens of problems in the Soviet Union.<ref name="Seventy five">{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/SolzhenitsynTheVoiceOfFreedom|title=Solzhenitsyn: The Voice of Freedom |author=Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|work=AFL–CIO|date=30 June 1975|access-date=22 June 2016}}</ref> He described how this system was responsible for the [[Holodomor]]: "It was a system which, in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million people to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933." Solzhenitsyn added, "they died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn't even notice it. The world didn't even notice it—6 million people!"<ref name="Seventy five"/>

Shortly before his death, Solzhenitsyn said in an interview published 2 April 2008 in ''[[Izvestia]]'' that, while the famine in Ukraine was both artificial and caused by the state, it was no different from the [[Russian famine of 1921–1922]]. Solzhenitsyn stated that both famines were caused by systematic armed robbery of the harvests from both Russian and Ukrainian peasants by Bolshevik units, which were under orders from the [[Politburo]] to bring back food for the starving urban population centers while refusing for ideological reasons to permit any private sale of food supplies in the cities or to give any payment to the peasants in return for the food that was seized.<ref name="Solzh"/> Solzhenitsyn further said that the theory that the Holodomor was a genocide which only victimized the Ukrainian people, was created decades later by believers in an [[Russophobia|anti-Russian]] form of [[extreme nationalism|extreme Ukrainian nationalism]]. Solzhenitsyn also cautioned that the ultranationalists' claims risked being accepted without question in the West due to widespread ignorance and misunderstanding there of both Russian and Ukrainian history.<ref name="Solzh">{{cite news|first=Alexander|last=Solzhenitsyn|author-link=Alexander Solzhenitsyn|url=http://www.izvestia.ru/opinions/article3114723/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080405034053/http://www.izvestia.ru/opinions/article3114723|archive-date=5 April 2008|script-title=ru:Поссорить родные народы??|work=[[Izvestia]]|language=ru|date=2 April 2008|access-date=27 November 2011}}</ref>