Monument to victims of Holodomor in Ukraine erected in Washington

Monument in Washington to the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine
Photo: Embassy of Ukraine in the USA

In the capital of the United States, a bronze monument appeared dedicated to those who died during the 1932-1933 Holodomor residents of Ukraine. The memorial was installed in the very center of Washington.

“On August 4, 2015, in the center of Washington, not far from the Capitol, a sculpture of a monument to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine was erected,” says the website of the Ukrainian embassy.

The project is called "Field of Wheat" and is a wall with a picture of wheat, and signed Holodomor 1932-1933. The installation of the memorial was attended by the Ambassador of Ukraine to the United States Valery Chaly, the author of the monument project Larisa Kurilas, the chairman of the US Regional Committee for Recognition of the Holodomor as genocide Mikhail Savkiv, as well as representatives of the companies that were involved in manufacturing and installation. The grand opening of the monument is planned for November 7.

We add that the US Congress granted the Government of Ukraine permission to build on the federal state district of Columbia a monument to the victims of the Holodomor as early as 2006. Since then, there has been work on the implementation of this project, on which the Government of Ukraine has worked in close cooperation with the Ukrainian community.

In Ukraine, the Holodomor 1932-1933 is considered genocide. According to Ukraine, if not for the Holodomor, the population of the country today would be twice as large - up to one hundred million people.

In November 2003, the United Nations recognized 1932-1933's famine as a tragedy in other republics of the former USSR.

The Russian Federation refuses to recognize the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine as an ethnic genocide, stressing that the victims were both residents of Ukraine and residents of the Volga region and other territories of the Soviet Union.