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Museum staff of Holodomor Victims Memorial invited candidate of medical sciences, expert of the high qualification class, doctor of the highest category, criminalist and forensic expert Andriy Kis to speak about the results of the forensic examination, which was conducted during the criminal case on the fact of committing the crime of genocide in Ukraine in 1932 -1933.
On September 14, 2018, Andriy Kis, in the Hall of Memory of the National Museum “Holodomor Victims Memorial”, delivered a lecture "Forensic and Medical Aspects of Holodomor Studies".
The first part of the lecture was devoted to the question of the authenticity of Soviet official statistics. Thus, according to the results of the analysis of registration books and death certificates stored in the registry offices, the total number of deaths in the Kharkiv region was 22 thousand people in 1933. However, in 1934 the authorities excluded the registration books for 1932-1933 years. Therefore, a group of experts began to study other documents. The lecturer emphasized the importance of forensic examination, which should be based not on fake documents, but on primary data from mortuaries. Back in 2001, Andriy Kis discovered 8 books for deaths registration of the Kharkiv Medical Mortuary in 1932-1933. This made it possible to dynamically compare the data from the mortuary and from the registry offices.
Studies have shown that in March 1933 there were sharp declines in mortality. This decline is explained by the order of the regional prosecutor that all the corpses that are on the territory of the city were taken to the cemetery without any stops along the route. Moreover, there is a large decrease in the death rate in July 1933, especially on July 7, 1933. This happened because on July 7, 1933, was held plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Bolshevik Party; July 7, 1933, court experts were given a new room; on July 7, new orders, regarding the transport of corpses, were issued; on July 7, Mykola Skrypnyk committed suicide.
The lecturer explained different deaths caused by hunger: rapid (exhaustion of the body) and alimentary dystrophy (hunger edema). In addition, people died from hunger-related health complications, mostly intestinal and stomach diseases.
Famine is like an epidemic: it has its own increase and decline. In the case of Holodomor, the documents create a mismatch between the fading processes. If we consider the famine in Leningrad in 1941, the Sudanese famine in 1986 and Somali famine in 2010-2012, a rapid rise and a very slow death rate are visible. In contrast, in the situation with the Holodomor, mortality stops sharply.
The researcher's study of mortality from typhus in Kharkiv during 1932-1933 shows a gradual decrease in the number of deaths due to this disease from July 1933. Thus, comparing these initial data and the general mortality rate in 1933, based on the registration documents of the registries of Kharkiv city, there is a marked discrepancy: the slow decrease in mortality from typhus and a sharp decrease in overall mortality.
Speaking about the doubtfulness of official statistics, Andriy Kis has shown some astonishing acts of death registration. For example, one of the acts of death registration states that a person died on December 14, 1933, despite the fact that the act itself was registered on December 4, that is, 10 days before the death.
Such facts show the unreliability of data from the registry offices and, in general, from official statistics during the Holodomor years. Therefore, these materials can not be taken as the basis for demographic research on Holodomor losses, but only as relative indicators.
Andriy Kis refutes the thesis that Holodomor ended in August 1933. For example, in the children's isolation center "Komunistka" in the registration journals for November and December 1933 it was stated that 2 children had died. However, it is indicated in other primary documents that only in December 1933 more than 80 children died in this children's isolation center.
During the lecture, Andriy Kis showed documents about nutrition in the orphanages of Kharkiv, where the only products were the cereals. The nutritional value of the ration of factory workers was at the level of 400-700 calories, with the norm at 3500 calories. Adult population was terribly undernourished. It is difficult to say that the hunger stopped in August 1933, if you read the report of the Chief of the Southern Railway on improving the nutrition of workers in November 1933 to 700-800 calories a day!
All these materials allow the expert group to make the conclusion that the losses from Holodomor in the Kharkiv region only were not less than 1 million people in 1933.
A special attention was paid to the graph, in which the number of children "planned" to be brought to the kindergartens of Kharkiv for 1933 fully corresponds to the mortality rate. This indicates a clear intention of an act of genocide.
The second part of the lecture was devoted to the biological aspect of the study of hunger. Doctor described in detail all the stages of the fasting and the processes that occur with the human body at this time.
Andriy Kis emphasized that with prolonged maintenance of the average level of ghrelin and leptin (which depend directly on the nutrition) the person becomes fully manageable. So, using Holodomor, the authorities of the USSR tried to turn the Ukrainians into a managed Soviet nation.
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