Today, on the last Saturday of November, Ukraine Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor of the Ukrainian people in 1932-33. And also Holodomors on the territory of modern Ukraine in 1921-23 and 1946-47, UNN reports.
Up to ten million victims
90 years ago, one of the worst acts of genocide in the history of mankind took place. genocide in the history of mankind, when an entire nation was tried to be destroyed by artificially by means of artificially created famine.
In 1928, the Soviet government began a forced collectivization. Wealthy Ukrainian peasants who refused to join the collective farms collective farms and their families were deprived of all their property, arrested, shot or sent to Siberia.
In 1932, the authorities of the USSR set absolutely unrealistic grain production rates for Ukrainian peasants absolutely unrealistic grain procurement rates for Ukrainian farmers.
Punitive authorities took away absolutely all grain and and other products. Barrier detachments were set up near villages so that people could not could not escape to the cities.
Driven to despair, exhausted men and women resorted to to such horrific acts as cannibalism.
To this day, historians debate how many people in Ukraine died during those horrific events. The number of victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33 ranges from three to ten million.
The world will know the truth
The truth about the Holodomor was concealed not only by the Soviet authorities. For many years, pro-russian forces in Ukraine have been trying to prove that that there was no Holodomor.
In 2006, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law recognizing the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Every year the horrific truth about the events of those years is being recognized in other countries of the world.
The Holodomor was recognized as genocide of the Ukrainian people by 28 countries of the world, 33 states of the United States.
This is especially important in the context of the fact that even after almost a century century later, russia has not stopped trying to destroy Ukrainians and commit genocide against our people - now through a bloody war.
A candle of remembrance
Every year on this day, at exactly 16:00, the victims of the Holodomor are a minute of silence is observed. Candles are lit in squares, near memorials and monuments. candles are lit.
Also, after dark, a candle should be lit at home and put it on the windowsill. The flickering light will be a symbol of the memory of millions of victims, and at the same time a ray of hope and faith in our victory.
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