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The German parliament ruled that the 1930s famine in Ukraine caused by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin amounted to genocide.

according Deutsche Welle, the Bundestag ruled on Wednesday that Holdemor constituted a “crime against humanity”, that “the political leadership of the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin was responsible for it”. The resolution comes as Ukraine accuses Russia of using similar tactics in its current war.

The three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government coalition, the Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats, as well as the main opposition parties, the Christian Democrats CDU and CSU, all voted for the resolution.

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– The starvation killings were also aimed at politically repressing Ukrainian national identity, Ukrainian culture and language, Greens MP Robin Wagener told the German parliament.

– The parallels with today are impossible to ignore, he added, referring to what is happening in Ukraine today.

This point was echoed by several other speakers, just over nine months into Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, including CDU lawmaker Volker Ullrich.

– Russia’s current war of aggression against Ukraine joins the ranks of this historical tradition, he said.

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What is the Holodomor?

Holodomor can be roughly translated from Ukrainian “to starve to death” and is Ukraine’s description of the approximately four million people who died during the famine in the country during the period 1932-33.

In November 1932, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin sent the police to seize all grain and livestock from newly collectivized Ukrainian farms, including the seeds needed to plant the next crop. As a direct consequence of this policy, several million Ukrainians died.

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In 2006, the Ukrainian parliament called the Holodomor a genocide against the people of the country.

Russia adamantly denies it was genocide, arguing that it was not just Ukrainians, but also Russians, Kazakhs, Volga Germans and others who suffered the mass starvation in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine

Over the weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi accused Russia of using similar tactics in the war against Ukraine today.

– Once they wanted to destroy us with hunger, now with darkness and cold. We cannot be crushed, Zelenskyy wrote on Telegram.

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Russia has deliberately attacked critical infrastructure across Ukraine in recent weeks with waves of airstrikes, triggering widespread power outages and killing civilians en masse.

Among other things, Wednesday’s resolution calls on the German government to fight “any attempt to spread a one-sided Russian narrative” and to continue supporting Ukraine as a “victim of the current war.”

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According to the Holodomor Museum in kyiv, 16 states besides Ukraine have so far recognized the famine as genocide: Australia, Ecuador, Estonia, Canada, Colombia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru , Poland, Portugal. , the United States and the Vatican.

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