EU Recognizes Ukraine Holodomor As Genocide

 

DW: European Parliament recognizes Ukraine Holodomor as genocide  

The European Parliament passed a resolution that declared Holodomor — the starvation of millions of people in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin — a "genocide". 

The European Parliament on Thursday voted for a resolution declaring the deliberately induced famine in Ukraine 90 years ago a genocide. 

The text of the resolution said the EU legislature "recognizes the Holodomor, the artificial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine caused by a deliberate policy of the Soviet regime, as a genocide against the Ukrainian people." 

EU lawmakers "strongly condemn these acts, which resulted in the deaths of millions of Ukrainians, and call on all countries and organizations that have not yet done so to follow suit and recognize it as genocide," the statement read. 

"While condemning the current Russian regime for manipulating historical memory for the purpose of its own survival, Parliament calls on the Russian Federation, as the primary successor of the Soviet Union, to apologies for those crimes," the press release read.  

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WNU Editor: The brutality of Stalin was not only felt in Ukraine, but also throughout the Soviet Union. No ethnic group was spared from the Socialists/Communists in power then, even Russians. 

But IMHO the ones who probably suffered the most during this time were the Kazakhs, where it is estimated that between 38% - 42% of the population died during this period of time (Kazakh famine of 1930–1933).