Members' Business: Holodomor Remembrance Day - 20 March 2018
Channel: The Scottish Parliament
Date: 2018-03-20

Peter Chapman: Holodomor Remembrance Day 2017—That the Parliament notes
the day of commemoration and remembrance of the Ukrainian Holodomor, which will take place on 25 November 2017; considers that the Holodomor, literally meaning extermination by hunger,
was a deliberate man-made famine designed by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime to crush Ukrainian
nationalism and the Ukrainian peasantry, whom he viewed as a threat; understands that, due to
the wall of secrecy imposed by the former Soviet Union, it is difficult to know how many perished
during the Holodomor of 1932-33, although recognises that recent research suggests
that between three and seven and a half million may have died as a direct result of the Sovietimposed
famine in Ukraine; notes that, during the height of the famine, international offers of aid
and support were turned down by the regime, while vital food stores were allowed to rot in
warehouses under armed guard; believes the Holodomor to be a deliberate act of genocide
that must be fully understood and recognised by current and future generations, and notes the
important role that the Holodomor Remembrance Day plays in achieving this aim.

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