On Saturday, November 23, Ukrainians and EU officials honored the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine.
President of the European Parliament Roberta Metsola said that on Saturday, November 23, Europe “joins the people of Ukraine to remember and pay tribute to the millions of victims of the Holodomor.”
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that on this day his thoughts are “with this genocide and the ongoing war in this country.” “Today we remember the Holodomor, the starvation of more than 6 million people in Ukraine between 1932 and 1933 on the orders of Stalin,” he wrote.
The Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs also honored the memory of the victims. “The Ukrainian resistance remained unbroken then, and the Russian aggressors will not prevail today. Today Ukraine has loyal friends who will support it in every way,” the ministry said.
“On the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims, we pay tribute to millions of Ukrainians that Stalin and his regime killed by hunger. The Kremlin tried to break the spine of our nation, eliminate entire generations. This horrible crime has no statute of limitations,” the Ukrainian foreign minister Andrii Sybiha wrote on X.
Ukrainian commemoration rally attacked by communists in Greece
Meanwhile, in Greece, communist radicals attacked a rally to honor the victims of the genocide. Representatives of the Ukrainian community in Greece said that a large group of unidentified people with communist symbols aggressively disrupted their event on the occasion of the Holodomor Remembrance Day.
The incident took place in the town of Mandra, where Ukrainians had come from other settlements to the monument to the famous Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko to hold a commemorative event.
A group of aggressive individuals wearing communist flags and slogans attacked Ukrainians on Saturday during a peaceful event honoring the Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine, many of whom were women and children from Ukrainian schools and associations.
“According to the participants, the attackers, armed with communist symbols, blocked access to the monument and resorted to aggressive actions. They used insults and threats,” wrote Ukrainian priest in Greece Ihor Posolenyk.
The attached video depicts clashes, including the use of pyrotechnics. The opponents of the action are about two dozen people.
The priest also stated that unknown individuals’ actions injured a Ukrainian embassy representative, a claim later confirmed in an official statement.
“Russian aggression has forced thousands of Ukrainian children and families to seek refuge in Greece, a European democratic state. However, this incident came as a shock to the community, especially given that the attack took place at an event that was supposed to emphasize the importance of remembering the tragedies of the past,” said Ihor Posolenyk.
Holodomor of 1932-1933 widely recognized as genocide against Ukrainian people
The parliaments of about three dozen countries, as well as the European Parliament and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, have recognized the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people.
In September, the Swiss Parliament recognized the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as an act of genocide.
The Holodomor was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. Many historians concluded that the famine was deliberately engineered by the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement (Wikipedia). Some historians argue that the famine was the result of a massive Soviet agricultural collectivization.
The Holodomor, extermination by the hunger of 1932-1933, was artificially caused by the Stalin regime. The Holodomor was a continuation of imperial Russia’s colonial war against Ukraine, the goal of which was the Ukrainian people’s subjugation and assimilation.
The stories told by still-living witnesses of the Holodomor were shocking, and even more shocking were the cynical documents of the Soviet authorities about the mechanisms of creating artificial famine to exterminate millions.
Unfortunately, most records are still kept in Russia under the label “secret.” However, the documents available to historians show that it was a planned genocide, the victims of which were millions of people, the channel 24 wrote.
Millions of Ukrainians killed by a famine artificially caused by the Stalin regime
No one knows the exact number of people killed and starved to death. Historians vary from 4 to 7 million; some even point to a possible number of victims of 10 million people.
The memories of eyewitnesses paint an infernal picture with scenes of cannibalism, mountains of dead bodies along the roads and around cities, firing squads, and squads of Soviet military punishers. A joint statement to the United Nations signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7 to 10 million died.
Timothy Snyder, a professor at Yale University and a famous genocide researcher, provided in one of his lectures seven signs of a future genocide that he identified during his research on colonial history.
Snyder underlines the first of these signs: blaming a state for not being an established state; from the colonial power’s point of view, it means that the empire aims at capturing it again.
This claim about Ukraine has been one of the most persistent narratives of Moscow propaganda for many years, which pretended that Ukraine was a fictional and failed state.
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