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Ukrainas president och hans fru Olena vid ett minnesmonument för offrena för Holodomor. (AP)

EU erkänner Holodomor som folkmord: ”Avsiktlig politik”

EU-parlamentet erkänner Sovjetledaren Josef Stalins medvetna svält av Ukraina i början av 1930-talet som folkmord, rapporterar AFP. Under massvälten, som fått namnet Holodomor, dog miljontals ukrainare.

”Holodomor orsakades av en avsiktlig politik från Sovjetregimen”, skriver parlamentet i ett uttalande.

I samma uttalande skriver EU att man beklagar att Ryssland, 90 år efter svältkatastrofen, återigen begår fruktansvärda brott i Ukraina.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyj har tidigare jämfört Rysslands strategi att attackera ukrainsk infrastruktur i det pågående kriget med Stalins svältmetoder.

– Då ville de krossa oss med hunger, den här gången med mörker och kyla.

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Holodomor
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The Holodomor (Ukrainian: Голодомо́р, romanized: Holodomor, IPA: [ɦolodoˈmɔr]; derived from морити голодом, moryty holodom, 'to kill by starvation'), also known as the Terror-Famine or the Great Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1932–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union.While scholars universally agree that the cause of the famine was man-made, whether the Holodomor constitutes a genocide remains in dispute. Some historians conclude that the famine was planned and exacerbated by Joseph Stalin in order to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. This conclusion is supported by Raphael Lemkin. Others suggest that the famine arose because of rapid Soviet industrialisation and collectivization of agriculture.Ukraine was one of the largest grain-producing states in the USSR and was subject to unreasonably higher grain quotas, when compared to the rest of the country. This caused Ukraine to be hit particularly hard by the famine. Early estimates of the death toll by scholars and government officials vary greatly. A joint statement to the United Nations signed by 25 countries in 2003 declared that 7–10 million died. However, current scholarship estimates a range significantly lower, with 3.5 to 5 million victims. The famine's widespread impact on Ukraine persists to this day.Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine alongside 22 countries, as a genocide against the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet regime.

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