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110TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1314 

Remembering the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 

1932–1933 and extending the deepest sympathies of the House of Representatives to the victims, survivors, and families of this tragedy, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JUNE 26, 2008 

Mr. LEVIN (for himself, Ms. KAPTUR, Mr. BARTLETT of Maryland, Mr. GERLACH, Mr. BERMAN, Mr. ANDREWS, Mr. BILIRAKIS, Mr. COSTA, Mr. 

LINCOLN DIAZ-BALART of Florida, Mr. ENGEL, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. 

LANGEVIN, Mr. MCCOTTER, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. MCNULTY, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. ROTHMAN, Ms. SCHWARTZ, and Mr. WALZ of Minnesota) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

RESOLUTION 

Remembering the 75th anniversary of the Ukrainian FamineGenocide of 1932–1933 and extending the deepest sympathies of the House of Representatives to the victims, 

survivors, and families of this tragedy, and for other 

purposes. 

Whereas in 1932 and 1933, nearly 10 million Ukrainian people perished at the will of the totalitarian Stalinist government of the former Soviet Union, which perpetrated 

a premeditated famine in Ukraine in an effort to break 

the nation’s resistance to collectivization and communist 

occupation; 


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Whereas the Soviet Government deliberately confiscated grain 

harvests and starved millions of Ukrainian men, women, 

and children by a policy of forced collectivization that 

sought to destroy the nationally conscious movement for 

independence; 

Whereas Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin ordered the borders of 

Ukraine sealed to prevent anyone from escaping the manmade starvation and preventing any international food 

aid that would provide relief to the starving; 

Whereas Canadian wheat expert Andrew Cairns visited 

Ukraine in 1932 and was told that there was no grain 

‘‘because the government had collected so much grain 

and exported it to England and Italy,’’ while simultaneously denying food aid to the people of Ukraine; 

Whereas nearly a quarter of the rural population of Ukraine 

was eliminated due to forced starvation, while the entire 

nation suffered from the consequences of the prolonged 

lack of food; 

Whereas the Soviet Government manipulated and censored 

foreign journalists, including New York Times correspondent Walter Duranty, who knowingly denied not 

only the scope and magnitude, but also the existence, of 

a deadly man-made famine in his reports from Ukraine; 

Whereas noted correspondents of the time were castigated by 

the Soviet Union for their accuracy and courage in depicting and reporting the famine-genocide in Ukraine, including Gareth Jones, William Henry Chamberlin, and 

Malcolm Muggeridge, who wrote, ‘‘[The farmers] will tell 

you that many have already died of famine and that 

many are dying every day; that thousands have been shot 

by the government and hundreds of thousands exiled’’; 


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Whereas in May 1934, former Congressman Hamilton Fish 

introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives 

(House Resolution 399 of the 73d Congress) which called 

for the condemnation of the Soviet Government for its 

acts of destruction against the Ukrainian people; 

Whereas the United States Commission on the Ukraine Famine, formed on December 13, 1985, conducted a study 

with the goal of expanding the world’s knowledge and understanding of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932– 

1933 (Holodomor), and concluded that the victims were 

‘‘starved to death in a man-made famine’’ and that ‘‘Joseph Stalin and those around him committed genocide 

against Ukrainians in 1932–1933’’; 

Whereas on May 15, 2003, in a special session, the Ukrainian Parliament acknowledged that the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide was engineered by Joseph Stalin and the 

Soviet Government deliberately against the Ukrainian nation; 

Whereas with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival 

documents confirmed the deliberate and pre-meditated 

deadly nature of the famine, and the Soviet Government 

was exposed for its atrocities against the Ukrainian people; and 

Whereas on October 13, 2006, the President of the United 

States signed into law Public Law 109–340, authorizing 

the construction of a memorial in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide, in recognition of the upcoming 75th anniversary of 

the genocide in 2008: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 


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1 (1) solemnly remembers the 75th anniversary of 

2 the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–1933 and 

3 extends its deepest sympathies to the victims, sur4 vivors, and families of this tragedy; 

5 (2) condemns the systematic violations of 

6 human rights, including the freedom of self-deter7 mination and freedom of speech, of the Ukrainian 

8 people by the Soviet Government; 

9 (3) encourages dissemination of information re10 garding the Ukrainian Famine-Genocide in order to 

11 expand the world’s knowledge of this man-made 

12 tragedy; and 

13 (4) supports the continuing efforts of Ukraine 

14 to work toward ensuring democratic principles, a 

15 free-market economy, and full respect for human 

16 rights, in order to enable Ukraine to achieve its po17 tential as an important strategic partner of the 

18 United States in that region of the world. 

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