Holodomor during Dublin Festival of History

The following information is about a discussion about Stalin's famine in Ukraine scheduled to take place in Dublin as part of the Festival of History.  The newspaper article I added from the web. I believe all the talks will be posted as podcasts after the festival is over.

Read an article about Stalin and Holodomor in the New Republic. 

Russia was born out of Ukraine

"It happened so that although it was Russia that was born out of Ukraine, and not the other way around, due to systematic distortion of historical facts to serve ideological needs (just consider the concept of ‘great Russia’) the entire world (alas, including Ukrainians themselves) grew to believe in this distorted picture of history and culture, believe in the ‘big brother.’ But Volodymyr the Great, Baptist of Rus’, Volodymyr Monomakh, and many other ‘founders of the Russian nation and culture’ were of Ukrainian, not Russian origin!"