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“First Presidency Statement on Armed Conflict”

“First Presidency Statement on Armed Conflict”

Last updated on: February 25, 2022 at 3:20 pm by Dan Peterson

“First Presidency Statement on Armed Conflict” 2022-02-25T15:20:57-07:00 Dan Peterson

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Panoramic view of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, from the Saint Sophia Monastery
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The flag of the sovereign nation of Ukraine

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Now seems an appropriate time for me to mention, and to recommend, one of the most powerful books I’ve ever read, The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, by the late Robert Conquest (1917-2015). Here’s what the blurb on Amazon.com has to say about it:

The Harvest of Sorrow is the first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century. Between 1929 and 1932 the Soviet Communist Party struck a double blow at the Russian peasantry: dekulakization, the dispossession and deportation of millions of peasant families, and collectivization, the abolition of private ownership of land and the concentration of the remaining peasants in party-controlled “collective” farms. This was followed in 1932-33 by a “terror-famine,” inflicted by the State on the collectivized peasants of the Ukraine and certain other areas by setting impossibly high grain quotas, removing every other source of food, and preventing help from outside — even from other areas of the Soviet Union — from reaching the starving populace. The death toll resulting from the actions described in this book was an estimated 14.5 million–more than the total number of deaths for all countries in World War I.

Ambitious, meticulously researched, and lucidly written, The Harvest of Sorrow is a deeply moving testament to those who died, and will register in the Western consciousness a sense of the dark side of this century’s history.

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By now, you’ve probably heard the heroic story of the thirteen Ukrainian defenders of a small post in the Black Sea. Their last words weren’t quite appropriate to a sacrament meeting talk — talk among soldiers often isn’t, especially under fire — but their courage is beyond admirable. (They died just minutes later.) Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, has posthumously conferred upon them the well-deserved Hero of Ukraine medal, which is that country’s equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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I honor them, too. I’m deeply saddened by the destruction and death that is being visited — without either justice or honor — upon the people of Ukraine. I’m saddened, too, at the loss of life that is occurring upon young exploited and manipulated Russian soldiers. I’m praying for people on both sides, but also that truth, justice, and freedom will prevail.

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