The 20th century was one of the most dramatic in the history of Ukraine. Тhe Famine of 1932-33 took the lives of 7 million people during peacetime. In 2016, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko officially called for the Holodomor to be acknowledged as genocide orchestrated by the Soviet Union, which, for decades, Soviet rule prevented Ukraine from doing. Now, memorials stand all over the world that honour the victims and officially acknowledge the Holodomor. Тhe Great Famine of 1932-1933 was an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people as a political nation that also included other ethnicities. “Today, as a …read more
Source: SBS
