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Calendar No. 609 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 650 

Recognizing May 28 as ‘‘World Hunger Day’’, that the 90th anniversary 

of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known as the Holodomor, should 

serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people 

of Ukraine, and that Vladimir Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine has 

diminished Ukraine’s agricultural output and threatens to exacerbate 

the problems of global hunger on World Hunger Day. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

MAY 26, 2022 

Mr. KAINE (for himself, Mr. PORTMAN, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, and 

Mr. MURPHY) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 

the Committee on Foreign Relations 

DECEMBER 7, 2022 

Reported by Mr. MENENDEZ, with an amendment, an amendment to the 

preamble, and an amendment to the title 

[Strike out all after the resolving clause and insert the part printed in italic] 

[Strike the preamble and insert the part printed in italic] 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing May 28 as ‘‘World Hunger Day’’, that the 90th 

anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, 

known as the Holodomor, should serve as a reminder 

of repressive Soviet policies against the people of 

Ukraine, and that Vladimir Putin’s illegal war against 

Ukraine has diminished Ukraine’s agricultural output 


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and threatens to exacerbate the problems of global hunger on World Hunger Day. 

Whereas Ukraine is a major global exporter of agricultural 

products critical to global food supplies, including wheat, 

corn, barley, and sunflower; 

Whereas Ukrainian wheat output has decreased by 34 percent, and corn, barley, and other grain output has decreased by more than 50 percent in the past year as a 

result of Russia’s war against Ukraine; 

Whereas Russia’s illegal occupation of the Crimean peninsula 

and Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Mariupol and Kherson, 

its assault on Odessa, its use of naval mines in the Black 

Sea and land mines in Ukraine’s agricultural areas, and 

the destruction of Ukrainian export terminals and transportation infrastructure have severely constrained 

Ukraine’s ability to export grain; 

Whereas the number of people around the world facing acute 

food insecurity greatly increased from 135,000,000 in 

2019, to 193,000,000 in 2021, nearly 40,000,000 people 

experienced emergency levels of acute food insecurity 

(just one step away from famine) in 2021, and the number of people experiencing such food insecurity is projected to increase in 2022; 

Whereas the effects of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine 

are expected to increase global grain prices and disproportionately impact low- and middle-income countries 

in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and subSaharan Africa who are dependent on imported Ukrainian wheat; 

Whereas the totality of these actions by Russia represents an 

intentional and concerted effort to attack the Ukrainian 


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agricultural sector resembling the Ukrainian Famine of 

1932–1933, which was caused by the former Soviet 

Union; 

Whereas, Senate Resolution 435, which was passed by the 

Senate on October 3, 2018, commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor and recognized the Soviet 

Union’s role in perpetrating this genocide against the 

Ukrainian people; 

Whereas 2022–2023 marks the 90th anniversary of the 

Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, which is also known as 

the Holodomor; 

Whereas, in 1932 and 1933, millions of 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; 

Whereas the Government of the Soviet Union 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 to prevent the delivery of any international food aid that would provide relief to the starving; 

Whereas numerous scholars worldwide have worked to uncover the scale of the famine, including Canadian wheat 

expert Andrew Cairns who visited Ukraine in 1932, and 

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ment had collected so much grain and exported it to England and Italy’’, while Joseph Stalin simultaneously denied food aid to the people of Ukraine; 

Whereas nearly a quarter of Ukraine’s rural population perished or were forced into exile due to the induced starvation and the entire nation suffered from the consequences 

of the prolonged famine; 

Whereas noted correspondents of the time were refuted for 

their courage in depicting and reporting on the forced 

famine in Ukraine, including Gareth Jones, William 

Henry Chamberlin, and Malcolm Muggeridge, who wrote 

‘‘[The peasants] 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 . . .’’; 

Whereas title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, 

State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–180; 99 Stat. 1157), 

which was enacted on December 13, 1985, established 

the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to ‘‘conduct a 

study of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933 in order to 

expand the world’s knowledge of the famine and provide 

the American public with a better understanding of the 

Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role’’ in it; 

Whereas, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival 

documents became available that confirmed the deliberate 

and premeditated deadly nature of the famine and that 

exposed the atrocities committed by the Soviet government against the Ukrainian people; 

Whereas Raphael Lemkin, who devoted his life to the development of legal concepts and norms for containing mass 


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atrocities and whose tireless advocacy swayed the United 

Nations in 1948 to adopt the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, authored 

an essay in 1953 entitled ‘‘Soviet Genocide in the 

Ukraine’’, which highlighted the ‘‘classic example of Soviet genocide’’ characterizing it ‘‘not simply a case of 

mass murder. It is a case of genocide, of destruction, not 

of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation’’; 

Whereas Ukraine’s law Number 376–V, ‘‘Law of Ukraine on 

the Starvation in Ukraine of 1932–1933’’, which was enacted on November 28, 2006, gave official recognition to 

the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people; 

Whereas, on October 13, 2006, President George W. Bush 

signed into law Public Law 109–340, which authorized 

the Government of Ukraine ‘‘to establish a memorial on 

Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933’’, 

and the Holodomor Memorial was officially dedicated in 

November 2015; 

Whereas the Government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian communities in the United States and worldwide continue 

their efforts to secure greater international awareness 

and understanding of the 1932–1933 tragedy; and 

Whereas victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 will be commemorated by Ukrainian communities around the globe 

and in Ukraine through November 2022: Now, therefore, 

be it 

Whereas Russia’s illegal, premeditated, unprovoked, and brutal 

war against Ukraine— 

(1) violates international law; 


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(2) undermines the principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity; and 

(3) includes extensive, systematic, and flagrant atrocities against the people of Ukraine; 

Whereas Vladimir Putin’s repeated public rejections of a separate Ukrainian identity have made the war an existential 

fight for the Ukrainian Government and people; 

Whereas Moscow has weaponized food by engaging in an intentional and concerted attack on the Ukrainian agricultural 

sector, resulting in elevated global grain prices that disproportionately impact low- and middle-income countries 

in the Middle East, North Africa, South Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa, who are dependent on imported Ukrainian 

wheat; 

Whereas Moscow’s weaponization of hunger has further exacerbated an unprecedented global food crisis that has greatly 

increased the number of people around the world facing 

acute food insecurity from 135,000,000 during 2019, to 

345,000,000 during 2022, with nearly 49,000,000 people 

experienced emergency levels of acute food insecurity (nearly famine level) during 2022; 

Whereas Putin’s attitude towards, and actions in, Ukraine 

evoke comparisons with the totalitarian government of the 

former Soviet Union, which was responsible for the 

Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933; 

Whereas Ukraine is a major global exporter of agricultural 

products that are critical to global food supplies, including 

wheat, corn, barley, and sunflower; 

Whereas Ukrainian wheat output has decreased by 34 percent, 

and corn, barley, and other grain output has decreased by 


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more than 50 percent in the past year as a result of Russia’s war against Ukraine; 

Whereas Russia’s illegal occupation of the Crimean peninsula 

and Ukrainian Black Sea ports of Mariupol and Kherson, 

its assault on Odessa, its use of naval mines in the Black 

Sea and land mines in Ukraine’s agricultural areas, and 

the destruction of Ukrainian export terminals and transportation infrastructure have severely constrained 

Ukraine’s ability to export grain; 

Whereas, Senate Resolution 435, which was passed by the Senate on October 3, 2018, commemorated the 85th anniversary of the Holodomor and recognized the Soviet Union’s 

role in perpetrating this genocide against the Ukrainian 

people; 

Whereas 2022–2023 marks the 90th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, which is also known as the 

Holodomor; 

Whereas in 1932 and 1933, millions of Ukrainian people perished at the will of the totalitarian Stalinist Government 

of the Soviet Union, which perpetrated a premeditated 

famine in Ukraine in an effort to break the nation’s resistance to collectivization and communist occupation; 

Whereas the Government of the Soviet Union 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 to prevent the delivery of any international food aid that would provide relief to the starving; 


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Whereas numerous scholars worldwide have worked to uncover 

the scale of the famine, including Canadian wheat expert 

Andrew Cairns who 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 Joseph Stalin simultaneously denied food aid 

to the people of Ukraine; 

Whereas nearly a quarter of Ukraine’s rural population perished or were forced into exile due to the induced starvation and the entire nation suffered from the consequences 

of the prolonged famine; 

Whereas noted correspondents of the time were refuted for their 

courage in depicting and reporting on the forced famine 

in Ukraine, including Gareth Jones, William Henry 

Chamberlin, and Malcolm Muggeridge, who wrote ‘‘[The 

peasants] 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. . .’’; 

Whereas title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, 

State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations 

Act of 1986 (Public Law 99–180; 99 Stat. 1157), which 

was enacted on December 13, 1985, established the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to ‘‘conduct a study of the 

Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933 in order to expand the 

world’s knowledge of the famine and provide the American 

public with a better understanding of the Soviet system by 

revealing the Soviet role’’ in it; 

Whereas, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival 

documents became available that confirmed the deliberate 

and premeditated deadly nature of the famine and that exVerDate Sep 11 2014 02:06 Dec 08, 2022 Jkt 039200 PO 00000 Frm 00008 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6300 E:\BILLS\SR650.RS SR650

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posed the atrocities committed by the Soviet government 

against the Ukrainian people; 

Whereas Raphael Lemkin, who devoted his life to the development of legal concepts and norms for containing mass 

atrocities and whose tireless advocacy swayed the United 

Nations in 1948 to adopt the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, authored 

an essay in 1953 entitled ‘‘Soviet Genocide in the 

Ukraine’’, which highlighted the ‘‘classic example of Soviet 

genocide’’ characterizing it ‘‘not simply a case of mass 

murder. It is a case of genocide, of destruction, not of individuals only, but of a culture and a nation’’; 

Whereas Ukraine’s law Number 376–V, ‘‘Law of Ukraine on 

the Starvation in Ukraine of 1932–1933’’, which was enacted on November 28, 2006, gave official recognition to 

the Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people; 

Whereas on October 13, 2006, President George W. Bush signed 

into law Public Law 109–340, which authorized the Government of Ukraine ‘‘to establish a memorial on Federal 

land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of 

the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933’’, and the 

Holodomor Memorial was officially dedicated in November 

2015; 

Whereas the Government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian communities in the United States and worldwide continue 

their efforts to secure greater international awareness and 

understanding of the 1932–1933 tragedy; and 

Whereas victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933 were commemorated by Ukrainian communities around the globe 


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and in Ukraine throughout November 2022: Now, therefore, 

be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) condemns Vladimir Putin’s illegal war in 

3 Ukraine, and his weaponization of hunger, which has 

4 increased global food prices and food insecurity in 

5 the world; 

6 (2) calls upon Vladimir Putin and the Russian 

7 Armed Forces to immediately cease their blockade of 

8 Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to allow all Ukrainian 

9 food exports to resume; 

10 (3) calls attention to the impending global food 

11 crisis by observing May 28, 2022, as ‘‘World Hunger 

12 Day’’; 

13 (4) solemnly remembers the 90th anniversary of 

14 the Holodomor of 1932–1933, and extends its deep15 est sympathies to the victims, survivors, and families 

16 of this tragedy; 

17 (5) condemns the systematic violations of 

18 human rights, including the freedom of self-deter19 mination and freedom of speech of the Ukrainian 

20 people by the Government of the Soviet Union; 

21 (6) recognizes the findings of the Commission 

22 on the Ukraine Famine, as submitted to Congress 

23 on April 22, 1988, including that ‘‘Joseph Stalin 


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1 and those around him committed genocide against 

2 the Ukrainians in 1932–1933’’; 

3 (7) encourages dissemination of information re4 garding the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in order to ex5 pand the world’s knowledge of this manmade trag6 edy; and 

7 (8) supports the continuing efforts of the people 

8 of Ukraine to defend themselves against Russian ag9 gression, to work toward ensuring democratic prin10 ciples, a free economy, and full respect for human 

11 rights in order to enable Ukraine to achieve its full 

12 potential in accord with the desires of the Ukrainian 

13 people and to deepen the partnership between 

14 Ukraine, the United States, and all democratic na15 tions. 

16 That the Senate— 

17 (1) condemns Vladimir Putin’s illegal war in 

18 Ukraine, his repeated public rejections of the existence 

19 of a Ukrainian people and a sovereign Ukrainian 

20 state, and his weaponization of hunger, which has in21 creased global food prices and food insecurity in the 

22 world; 

23 (2) calls upon Vladimir Putin and the Russian 

24 Armed Forces— 


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1 (A) to immediately cease their attacks on 

2 Ukrainian civilians; 

3 (B) to withdraw all troops from Ukraine; 

4 and 

5 (C) to fully respect Ukraine’s sovereignty, 

6 independence, and territorial integrity; 

7 (3) calls attention to the impending global food 

8 crisis by observing May 28 as ‘‘World Hunger Day’’; 

9 (4) solemnly remembers the 90th anniversary of 

10 the Holodomor of 1932–1933, and extends its deepest 

11 sympathies to the victims, survivors, and families of 

12 this tragedy; 

13 (5) condemns the systematic violations of human 

14 rights, including the freedom of self-determination 

15 and freedom of speech of the Ukrainian people by the 

16 Government of the Soviet Union; 

17 (6) recognizes the findings of the Commission on 

18 the Ukraine Famine, as submitted to Congress on 

19 April 22, 1988, including that ‘‘Joseph Stalin and 

20 those around him committed genocide against the 

21 Ukrainians in 1932–1933’’; 

22 (7) encourages dissemination of information re23 garding the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in order to ex24 pand the world’s knowledge of this manmade tragedy; 

25 and 


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1 (8) supports the continuing efforts of the people 

2 of Ukraine to defend themselves against Russian ag3 gression, to work toward ensuring democratic prin4 ciples, a free economy, and full respect for human 

5 rights in order to enable Ukraine to achieve its full 

6 potential in accord with the desires of the Ukrainian 

7 people and to deepen the partnership between 

8 Ukraine, the United States, and all democratic na9 tions. 

Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that the 90th anniversary of 

the Ukrainian Famine of 1932–1933, known as the 

Holodomor, should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies against the people of Ukraine, and that 

Vladimir Putin’s brutal and unprovoked war against 

Ukraine once again threatens the existence of the 

Ukrainian people, while exacerbating the problems of 

global hunger.’’. 


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Calendar No. 609 

117TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 650 

RESOLUTION 

Recognizing May 28 as ‘‘World Hunger Day’’, that 

World Hunger Day. to exacerbate the problems of global hunger on ished Ukraine’s agricultural output and threatens Putin’s illegal war against Ukraine has diminagainst the people of Ukraine, and that Vladimir serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies 1932–1933, known as the Holodomor, should the 90th anniversary of the Ukrainian Famine of 

DECEMBER 7, 2022 

Reported with an amendment, an amendment to the 

preamble, and an amendment to the title 


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