Germany: Bundestag recognizes 1932-1933 Great Famine in Ukraine as USSR ‘genocide’

The Federal Parliament of Germany recognized yesterday Wednesday (30/11) as genocide by the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin him Great Famine of Ukraine in the period 1932-33.

All parties supported the resolution except the Left and the Alternative for Germany (AfD).

The Holodomoras the Ukrainians called the famine (from the words “holod”, meaning “hunger”, and “mor”, meaning “extermination”), “constitutes a crime against humanity”refers to the text approved by Bundestag.

He immediately welcomed the decision the ambassador of Ukraine in BerlinOleksii Makeyev, speaking, in his statement to Deutsche Welle, about “very important decision that Ukrainians have been waiting for decades”while he emphasized that “all the democratic parties” were coordinated and that they identified similarities with the “genocidal war” that Russia is waging against Ukraine today.

Ukraine itself called the Holodomor “genocide” against its people in 2006.

Russia rejects the charge. He argues that not only Ukrainians, but also Russians, Kazakhs and Volga Germans suffered from the Great Famine in the Soviet Union.

On the occasion of Holodomor Memorial Day, celebrated every fourth Saturday in November, the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again accused Moscow of using similar methods today. “Once they wanted to destroy us with hunger, now with darkness and cold. But we will not bend,” Mr. Zelensky wrote on Telegram, referring to Russian attacks on civilian infrastructure, especially the electricity and water grid.

Except Ukraine and Germany have even recognized the Great Famine as genocideaccording to the Holodomor Museum archive, Australia, Brazil, Ecuador, Estonia, Canada, Colombia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Poland , Portugal, the Czech Republic, the USA and the Vatican.