(MT) – President Dmitry Medvedev chose not to travel to Ukraine to attend the memorial ceremony marking 75 years since the Holodomor -- the Stalin-induced famine of 1923-33 that caused a particularly high number of deaths in Ukraine. Instead, he sent an angry letter condemning the mean-spirited opportunists who refer disparagingly to the famine as the "so-called Holodomor" and are trying to drive a wedge between two fraternal Slavic nations.
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