Ukrainians Mourn Holodomor With Memorial Ceremonies Around the World The 1930s famine under Stalin
Source: Newsweek
Ukraine yesterday held a day of mourning for the millions of victims of a Soviet-era famine, with President Petro Poroshenko describing it as an episode in the “war waged by Russia against Ukraine.”
Poroshenko, accompanied by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and hundreds of Ukrainians, laid symbolic wheat ears and lit candles before the Holodomor — or “death by hunger” — monument in central Kiev.
The 1932-33 famine happened as harvests dwindled and Josef Stalin’s Soviet police enforced the brutal policy of collectivising agriculture by requisitioning grain and other foodstuffs.
But the Western-backed president dubbed it one of the darkest pages in the country’s history and “a manifestation of a centuries-old hybrid war waged by Russia against Ukraine” as part of a bid “to destroy the Ukrainian nation.”
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Interactive map of countries that recognize Stalin's Holodomor as genocide against Ukrainians--and those that still refuse
