The parliaments of Ireland and the Republic of Moldova have recognized the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people – a famine of Ukrainians artificially caused by the Soviet authorities, which killed millions of people in 1932-1933, Kyiv Independent writes.

The Holodomor of 1932-33Photo: Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto / Shutterstock Editorial / Profimedia

The day before, the Holodomor was also condemned in the Parliament of Romania.

Romanian deputies and senators voted on Wednesday at a joint meeting for the Declaration of the Parliament of Romania, which condemns the deliberate famine (Holodomor) to which the Ukrainian people were subjected during the Soviet occupation in 1932-1933.

The Parliament of Romania voted with 248 votes “for” and one “abstention” to adopt a declaration in memory of the Ukrainian genocide, which led to 10 million victims due to violations of basic civil rights and freedoms, reports Agerpres.

“The Senate of Ireland made a truly historic decision to recognize the Holodomor in Ukraine as genocide of the Ukrainian people,” the Embassy of Ukraine in Ireland reported on November 24.

Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor. This year, this day falls on November 26.

Ukraine fought for recognition of the artificial Holodomor as genocide. To date, only 17 countries in the world have recognized the Holodomor as such, reports the Holodomor Museum in Ukraine.

Speaking about the Holodomor, researchers mean the purposeful policy of the Soviet Union to destroy the Ukrainian nation as a political factor and social entity, according to political scientist Yaroslav Bilinsky (“Was the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933 genocide? Journal of Genocide Studies”, 1999), reports Free Europe.

Historians still debate whether the policies that led to the Holodomor fall under the Genocide Convention, and several countries, including now Romania, have recognized the Holodomor as genocide.

On November 28, 2006, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted a resolution recognizing the Soviet-era forced starvation as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.

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