Kyiv, November 26, 2022 (GNP/ TDI): Ukraine remembers the victims of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 along with the rest of the globe. Every year on the fourth Saturday in November, people remember this day.
On November 26th of this year, Ukrainians remembered the millions of victims. This year, the day falls amid a full-fledged conflict with Russia. Ukraine has been fighting for years to have the Holodomor recognized as a genocide.
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Genocide in Holodomor
Famine known as the Holodomor ravaged the Ukrainian Soviet Republic between 1932 and 1933. It was a part of a broader famine in the Soviet Union (1931–34). The Soviet Union’s grain-growing regions as well as Kazakhstan, experienced widespread malnutrition as a result of the famine.
The Ukrainian famine was made deadlier, however, by a number of government laws and policies that were largely intended against Ukraine. The name is a combination of the words for starvation (holod) and extinction in Ukrainian (mor).
According to some historians, Stalin planned the famine on purpose to destroy the Ukrainian independence movement. Others claim that it was due to his disastrous collectivization of agricultural land policy.
Russia strongly refutes the Holodomor’s designation as a genocide. It states that in addition to killing Ukrainians, the great famine that ravaged the Soviet Union in the early 1930s also killed Russians, Kazakhs, Volga Germans, and a variety of other ethnic groups.
Today twenty-one states observe memorials to the Holodomor victims. While nine states recognize it as a genocide of the Ukrainian people on a regional level.
Sociologists have noted a 1.5 times increase in responders who agree that the Holodomor of 1932–1933 counts as genocide over the past ten years.
The majority of people in the country’s western, central, and southeast areas agree that the Holodomor in 1932–1933 was a genocide. Additionally, there were no noticeable differences in age distributions on this topic.
The parliaments of Romania and Belarus acknowledged the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in Ukraine as genocide on November 24.
The upper house of the parliaments of Moldova and Ireland also reached the same conclusion. In April 2022, the Czech Parliament’s Chamber of Deputies unanimously declared the Holodomor to be a genocide of Ukrainians.