Bundestag Declares the Holodomor as a Genocide
The Bundestag (German Parliament) has officially declared the Holodomor as a genocide of Ukrainians.
Between 1932 and 1933, over 3.5 million Ukrainians were systematically starved to death in a man-made famine known as the Holodomor. The famine, which was orchestrated from above in the Soviet Union, was unprovoked.
For decades, the memory of the Holodomor was supressed within the Soviet Union.
The damage was not only the innocent lives lost, but also the irreversible generational trauma.
According to the Holodomor Museum in Kyiv, 16 states worldwide have condemned the Holodomor as a genocide. These include Australia, Canada, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the US, Poland, the Vatican, and Ukraine.
Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide in 1948, called the destruction of the Ukrainian nation “a classic example of the genocide”.
This is a decision for justice, for truth. And this is a very important signal to many other countries of the world that Russian revanchism will not succeed in rewriting history.
Volodymyr Zelensky
Holodomor Memorial Day is commemorated on the fourth Sunday every November. This year, 2022, marked the 89th anniversary of the Holodomor famine.
May the Memory of the Victims Be Eternal. Вічная Пам’ять.
