 Within Ukraine, ethnic Poles and Bulgarians died in similar proportions to ethnic Ukrainians.Despite any lack of clear intent on Stalin's part, the historian Norman Naimark noted that although there may not be sufficient "evidence to convict him in an international court of justice as a genocidaire[...] that does not mean that the event itself cannot be judged as genocide".Shortly after his death, the Soviet Union went through a period of de-Stalinization.