Ok, so I'll attack it from the other direction.
Last week Edmonton Ukraines held a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Stalin induced famine the wreck Soviet Ukraine. Now, a fair % of my genetic makeup is Ukrainian. And I know for absolute certain my great grandmother refused to talk about the famine until they day she died. I also know that the family lost quite a few members during the famine. But what would an apology do? Wouldn't do a damn thing for my family. Wouldn't do a thing for me. And it sure as hell wouldn't do anything for my relatives that suffered.
We just see these things differently, but I see these apologies as pointless grandstanding.
Anyway, I'll end with a historical fun fact:
The monument to the Ukraine famine that stands in front of Edmonton's City Hall was the first in the world to mark the man made famine. It was erected despite heavy pressure from the Soviet Union, who at that time, still denied a famine had occurred.
