The French Parliament recognized the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people

The French Parliament decided to recognize the 1932-1933 Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people. In this respect twitter On March 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced.

He noted that the French parliamentarians took an important step in exposing the crimes of totalitarian Russia. He described the decision as important and meaningful. This will help restore truth and justice.

Zelensky, “Thanks France!” said.

The resolution stated that the Holodomor was an artificially induced famine that differed in scale compared to other parts of the Soviet Union. The document says that the Soviet authorities feared a resurgence of Ukrainian nationalism, therefore they called the unruly peasants saboteurs and enemies of the proletariat. Then, brigades were sent to suppress the riots, search the farms, confiscate the crops, animals and seedlings, with disastrous consequences for the subsequent harvest. As a result, it was their actions that cost the lives of about four million Ukrainians, most of them peasants.

Recall that on March 10, Belgium considered the decision to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. Initiative supported. 127 members of the lower house of the Belgian parliament took part in the vote. Ten of them decided to avoid thinking about the matter. The adopted text condemns Russia’s attitude towards crime committed by the communists in the early 1930s.

On Wednesday, February 1, the Bulgarian National Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing the 1932-1933 Holodomor in Ukraine as a genocide against the Ukrainian people and condemned the perpetrators of the tragedy. The decision was supported by 124 deputies, 26 deputies voted against it. Also, the last Saturday of November was declared by the Bulgarian authorities as the day of remembrance and remembrance of the famine victims in Ukraine.