European Parliament Recognizes Holodomor as Genocide of Ukrainian People

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The majority of the European Parliament members supported a resolution recognizing the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people. The European Parliament has recognized the Holodomor as the genocide of the Ukrainian people. On Thursday, December 15, 507 EP deputies voted for the relevant resolution, 12 voted against it, reports DW correspondent from Strasbourg. A number of countries had already taken a similar decision. On November 30, Germany’s Bundestag voted for a corresponding resolution. “The Holodomor is included in the list of misanthropic crimes of totalitarian systems which destroyed millions of people in Europe in the first half of the 20th century. All of Ukraine suffered from famine and repression, not just its grain-producing regions. From today’s perspective, this should be qualified in historical and political terms as genocide,” Berlin stated. Holodomor as Genocide As a result of the forced collectivization of agriculture in the USSR during Joseph Stalin’s rule, a massive famine arose in the country in 1932-33, with millions of victims. For Ukraine, this catastrophe was deliberately instigated by the leadership of the Soviet Union. The Holodomor has long been a major point of contention between Ukraine and Russia. Moscow rejects Kyiv’s view that only Ukrainians were victims of the mass starvation and claims that millions of Central Asians and Russians also suffered from the famine.