James Mace

250px|thumb James E. Mace (February 18, 1952 – May 3, 2004) was an American historian, professor, and prominent researcher of the Holodomor. Quotes Just as one cannot study the Holocaust without becoming half Jewish in spirit, one cannot study the Famine and not become at least half Ukrainian. "Legacy of the Famine: Ukraine as a postgenocidal society" in The Day (February 18, 2003) For Stalin to have complete centralized power in his hands, he found it necessary to physically destroy the second largest Soviet republic, meaning the annihilation of the Ukrainian peasantry, Ukrainian intelligentsia, Ukrainian language, and history as understood by the people; to do away with Ukraine and things Ukrainian as such. The calculation was very simple, very primitive: no people, therefore, no separate country, and thus no problem. Speech at the International Conference on the Holocaust and Genocide in Tel Aviv (1982). No state will ever be able to make Ukraine Ukrainian. Only self-organized Ukrainians outside state structures will be able to do it. And I am confident it will happen! "I couldn’t help sharing the pain…" in The Day (February 22, 2011) External links James Mace's articles in The Day Category:People from Oklahoma Category:Academics from the United States Category:Historians from the United States Category:2004 deaths Category:1952 births