[5] The idea for the formation of an International Commission to investigate 1932-1933 Famine in Ukraine was suggested by Toronto lawyer V.-Yu.
His findings were delivered to the UN Under-Secretary for Human Rights in Geneva on May 9, and to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on May 10, 1990.
The commission president Professor Jacob Sundberg subsequently concluded that Tottle was not alone in his enterprise to deny the famine on the basis that material included in his book could not have been available to a private person without official Soviet assistance.
The only dissenting opinion came from Professor Sundberg, who argued that: "the evidence shows that the famine situation was well-known in Moscow from the bottom to the top.
On the contrary, a great deal was done to deny the famine, to make it invisible to visitors, and to prevent relief being brought.