The European Parliament qualifies as genocide the famine caused by the Soviet regime in Ukraine in the 1930s
The European Parliament has qualified as genocide the famine caused by the Soviets in Ukraine 90 years ago, which led to the death of millions of people, comparing the actions of the Russians since then to those now, in the context of the invasion, Agerpres reports.
In a text that received 507 votes for, 12 against and 17 abstentions, the MEPs gathered in Strasbourg appreciated that this famine, called by Ukrainians "Holodomor", was committed by the "Soviet regime with the intention of destroying a group of people , deliberately subjecting them to living conditions that inevitably led to their physical annihilation".
"The current Russian crimes (committed) in Ukraine are reminiscent of the past," the European Parliament said in a statement.
The MEPs urge "all countries and organizations" to recognize this famine as genocide, in the face of a "Russian regime that manipulates historical memory for its own survival".
Ukraine lost between four and eight million inhabitants in the great famine of 1932-1933, amid the collectivization of agricultural lands, orchestrated according to historians by Stalin, to suppress any nationalist and secessionist aspirations of this country, then a Soviet republic. Ukraine has been campaigning for several years for the Holodomor to be officially recognized as genocide, a concept that emerged after the Second World War.
Russia categorically refuses such a classification, on the pretext that the great famine that was in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s made not only Ukrainian victims, but also among Russians, Kazakhs, Volga Germans and other peoples.
