More than ten of them were adopted after the start of Russia's full-scale invasion. What the countries' resolutions say and how the diplomatic corps assesses the process
Source: Ukrinform
Nine decades have passed since the extermination of Ukrainians by the largest-scale famine controlled by Moscow. For almost a year and a half, our country has been forced to withstand a full-scale Russian attack. And it is the current period of the Russian-Ukrainian war, with its terrible toll of victims, that has created an accelerated demand for truthful information about the history of relations between the aggressor country and Ukraine in the past.
Since last year, more than 10 countries have recognized at the highest level that genocide was committed against the Ukrainian nation in 1932-1933. Among them are such powerful political players as Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. Ukrinform traces how restoring the memory of the past unites and helps to weaken manipulative Russian influences.
In total, the Holodomor has been recognized as genocide by the parliaments of 28 countries, according to the Ukrainian Institute of National Memory: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Ecuador, Estonia, Georgia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Germany, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Hungary, France, and the United States.
There are also a number of countries in which the recognitions adopted by the lower houses are subject to approval by the upper houses. For example, the proposal has already been supported by all members of the ruling coalition in the Dutch House of Representatives. Now the Senate has to approve the document.
"Recognition honors the victims and warns future generations to prevent genocide from happening again," emphasizes Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba. In the Action Plan for the Implementation of the Strategy of Foreign Policy of Ukraine approved this year in April, the recognition of the Holodomor organized by the Stalinist regime in 1932-1933 as genocide and the perpetuation of the memory of the innocent victims of the criminal totalitarian system is one of the priorities.