The US Senate recognized the Holodomor 1932-1933 as genocide of the Ukrainian people

The US Senate declared the massive famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, to be an act of deliberate genocide committed by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his circle, writes "Voice of America«.

A resolution on this issue was adopted on Wednesday by the full composition of the upper house of the US Congress.

The document states that the Senate recognizes the results of the commission on hunger in Ukraine, presented to the 12 Congress on April 1988, including the conclusion that "Joseph Stalin and his entourage committed genocide against the Ukrainians in the 1932-1933 years."

The resolution recalls that in 1932-1933, millions of Ukrainians died at the behest of the totalitarian Stalinist government in the former USSR, which, according to senators, “deliberately staged a famine in Ukraine to break the country's resistance to collectivization and communist occupation”.

According to this document, “the Soviet government deliberately confiscated the grain harvest and condemned the famine to millions of Ukrainian men, women and children as a result of a policy of forced collectivization aimed at destroying the conscious national movement for independence.”

Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the closure of Ukraine’s borders, “so that no one could avoid an artificially created famine and prevent the supply of international food aid, which could alleviate the situation of the starving,” the draft resolution says.

According to the Senate, almost a quarter of the rural population of Ukraine died because of the famine created.

In November, 2006, Ukraine officially recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.

In addition to recognizing the Holodomor as an act of genocide, the Senate condemned “systematic violations of human rights” in Ukraine by the Soviet government, “including freedom of self-determination and freedom of speech.”

Senators supported the dissemination of information about the Holodomor to raise global awareness of this artificial tragedy.

The resolution states that the Senate “supports the continued efforts of the people of Ukraine to ensure democratic principles, create a free market economy and full respect for human rights so that Ukraine can realize its potential as an important strategic partner of the United States in this region of the world, and to express the will of his people. "