“Readers had ample evidence of Holodomor: Despite Soviet censorship, eyewitness accounts of ‘murder by hunger’ reached pages of The Journal”
Article by Dr. Serge Cipko
An article in The Edmonton Journal (November 2008) outlines the coverage the Holodomor received in its pages in 1933, including how Mennonites in Saskatchewan and Ukrainians across Canada were receiving thousands of letters that described famine conditions. In October 1933, Peter Lazarowich opined that the “Russian Soviet government is deliberately determined to starve most of the population of the Ukraine in order to beat it into complete submission to the principles of Communism which the Ukrainian peasant masses have hitherto resisted and repudiated.”