Between 1932 and 1933, some 4 million Ukrainians died in a man-made famine known as the Holodomor, meaning "extermination by starvation" in Ukrainian.
Foto: Robin Wagener, green MP from Germany
"From the current perspective, it is therefore obvious that this is a genocide on the historical and political level."
Classifying the famine as "genocide" is significant amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine launched in February.
"Once again, violence and terror must deprive Ukraine of its vital bases and submit the whole country," said Robin Wagener, a green MP who helped bring about the text.
He described calling the Holodomor a “genocide” as a “warning signal”.
Russian President Vladimir Putin "is part of the cruel and criminal tradition of Stalin", Wagener continued.
Ukraine has campaigned for years to have the Holodomor recognized as a genocide.
The famine is one of the most "inhuman crimes committed by totalitarian systems ... in the first half of the 20th century", read the resolution.
It continues: This crime "is part of our common history as Europeans. All of Ukraine [was] affected by famine and repression, not just its grain-growing regions."
"From the current perspective, it is therefore obvious that this is a genocide on the historical and political level."
Classifying the famine as "genocide" is significant amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine launched in February.
Russia categorically refuses the classification of the Holodomor as a genocide. It claims the great famine which ripped through the Soviet Union during the early 1930s killed not only Ukrainians but also Russians, Kazakhs, Volga Germans and a number of other peoples.
The Italian Parliament intends to soon recognize the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. In Norway, the Storting has received a representative proposal to do the same, recognize the Holodomor as genocide. In 2008, they dealt with the case, and then current Prime Minister Støre said no to recognizing the genocide. Will they still deny the historical facts?
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