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notably, there have been no attempts at complete annihilation, such as was the method of the german attack on the jews
and yet, if the soviet program succeeds completely, if the intelligentsia, the priests and the peasants can be eliminated, ukraine will be as dead as if every ukrainian were killed, for it will have lost that part of it which has kept and developed its culture, its beliefs, its common ideas, which have guided it and given it a soul, which, in short, made it a nation rather than a mass of people
this is not simply a case of mass murder, it is a case of genocide, of destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation
soviet national unity is being created, not by any union of ideas and of cultures, but by the complete destruction of all cultures and of all ideas save one – the soviet

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