The Ukrainian Holocaust of 1933

165 pp. In concluding his book documenting the famine that was forced upon his homeland in 1933, Hrishko draws a comparison between the Ukrainian and the Jewish experience. He analyzes Mykola Rudenko's poem The Cross, which he called “a stirring poetic confession of the national, and also simply human, conscience of a Ukrainian Communist idealist” who “finally comes to realize the crime perpetrated against his people in the name of Communism.