The Russian occupation authorities of Mariupol removed the monument to the victims of the Holodomor from the port city, saying that it would be used for building materials, reports “New Voice of Ukraine”.

This was initially reported by one of the advisors of the Ukrainian mayor of Mariupol, Petro Andryushchenko.

One of Russia’s state-run news agencies, RIA Novosti, later published a video of the monument being dismantled, saying it was a “symbol of political disinformation” and that the granite block would be “turned into building material.”

The Holodomor, often referred to by historians as the “forgotten Holocaust” of the 20th century, also known as the “Famine of Terror” or the “Great Famine” in Ukraine, resulted in the deaths of 3.5-5 million Ukrainians between 1932 and 1933. .

But estimates of the actual death toll vary widely, with a joint UN declaration signed by 25 member states in 2003 putting the death toll at between 7 and 10 million.

The famine was organized by the Soviet authorities at the behest of Joseph Stalin, who ordered all agricultural products to be removed from the territory of Ukraine and people left to starve as part of his campaign to suppress the Ukrainian independence movement.

The Russians are again discussing committing genocide in Ukraine

Volodymyr Medinsky, an adviser to Vladimir Putin who was appointed by the Kremlin to be the chief negotiator in peace talks with Kyiv in February and March, is one of the most prominent deniers of the Holodomor in Russia.

After the Russian armed forces were repulsed in many theaters of war, and Ukraine was not conquered as quickly as Moscow’s special services had hoped, some guests, including official ones, began to openly promote the genocide of Ukrainians on Russian television.

Ex-head of Roscosmos Dmytro Rogozin, who is considered the favorite for the post of governor of the Ukrainian territories occupied by Moscow, made a call in this sense.

“In general, what has arisen in place of Ukraine is an existential threat to the Russian people, Russian history, Russian language and Russian civilization,” he wrote in mid-June on his Twitter.

“If we don’t finish them off [pe ucraineni] now, unfortunately, our grandparents are not finished with them, we will have to die, but at an even greater cost to our grandchildren. So let’s get this over with. Once for all. For our grandchildren,” added Rogozin.

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