Uh – oh – it looks like the thespians at the Royal Shakespeare Company are going to assist Lady Moscow with its Genocide Denial.
The new Holodomor play, “The Grain Store” does not sound too bad, but, Gadzooks! … “genocide” is glaringly absent while a curious “Durante” reporter is not (a speling errer in the Bastion of the King’s English – or afraid of the NY Times?).
Zounds! But what is this? The “Ukrainian” writer (who praises her “Russian” background) wants the audience to “forget” that this play is about Ukraine and in this interview, “Holodomor” has been diluted to a simple, lower case “holodomor” defined as “famine”. But that is OK – the writer says that this story is not a “tragedy” and that , Fie!, the deaths were a result of “systemic failure” (you know, bad weather and management).
The bottom line is that ALL involved with the promotion of this play have avoided any mention of “genocide” – and it appears they have choosen to continue the Durantyesque cover up of the Holodomor Genocide of 1932 which claimed more than all the battlefields of World War I.
What about this?
“If The Grain Store did open in Ukraine, she says she would feel “uncomfortable” with the consequences. “There is a big difference between ordinary people, who do not really want old memories stirred up, and the political classes, for whom it would become a propaganda issue. And I don’t want to be involved in that.””
What in hell does that relate? Why do “ordinary” people not want memories stirred? The Russians do it every year for the Great Patriotic War which started when they INVADED Poland in 1939.
And by what dimwit of lunacy should a NATION’S genocide NOT be discussed by that country’s politicians?
This woman if daft if only in expecting us to believe this spew.
Also note that this “Ukrainian” writer thinks highly of her “Russian” background.
Methinks there is something rotten in Moscow.