The French Parliament recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people

The National Assembly of France adopted a resolution in which the Holodomor – the mass famine of 1932-33 – is recognized as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. This is reported on the website of the lower house of the French parliament.

168 deputies voted for the adoption of the resolution, two voted against. The document emphasizes that the Holodomor was an artificially created famine that claimed the lives of four million Ukrainians, mostly peasants.

“This resolution is aimed at the recognition by the French authorities of this forced hunger of the Ukrainian population as genocide, as well as at the condemnation of committed actions characterized by extermination and mass violations of human rights and freedoms,” the resolution says.

Previously, similar resolutions were adopted by the parliaments of Germany, Moldova, Romania, and Bulgaria, as well as the Senate of Ireland. The USA adopted the corresponding resolution back in 2018. Last December, the European Parliament recognized the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people and also condemned Russia’s repeated crimes against the Ukrainian people.

• The Holodomor – a mass famine in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932-1933 – was caused by the policy of bread procurement and confiscation of all food stocks of Ukrainian peasants, carried out by the Soviet government. At least 5 million people died as a result of the famine, the exact figures are unknown. Many historians agree that it was a famine purposefully organized by the Soviet authorities on the territory of Ukraine. The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine recognized the Holodomor as genocide in 2006. The Russian authorities oppose such an assessment.