ACTIVE VOCABULARY

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 470.

1. acknowledge openly – открыто признать

2. are not politically aware – политически не грамотные

3. allegation - голословное утверждение

4. circulated the lie about – распространять ложь о

5. drought -засуха

6. intent - намерение, цель;

7. strive - добиваться, стараться, бороться;

8. tantamount - равносильный;

9. brush aside - отстранить от себя, отбросить;

10.sickle - серп;

11.comparable magnitude - относительная величина;

12.scarcely plausible - едва ли правдоподобно;

13.culpability - виновность, преступность.

I. Answer the following questions

1. What resolutions devoted to the Genocide Famine do you know?

2. What does the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide of December 9, 1948 say about juridical essence of term "genocide"?

3. What does the French Criminal Code say about "genocide"?

4. What the deliberate starvation of a child in Ukrainian kulak as' a result of the famine caused by Stalin's regime 'is equal to'?

5. What three reasons are there "for any requests for commemoration or demands for reparations are brushed aside" according to Martin Malia?

6. The genocide by starvation initiated by Stalin in Ukraine in the 1930's has had many Communist imitators during the 20 century. Where have they been and what do you know about them?