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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, and Mr. VAN HOLLEN) 

submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 

on Foreign Relations 

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 

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; 


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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 

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 

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niversary 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 

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; 

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tion 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 

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 


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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 

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 


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1 Ukraine’s Black Sea ports to allow all Ukrainian 

2 food exports to resume; 

3 (3) calls attention to the impending global food 

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

5 Day’’; 

6 (4) solemnly remembers the 90th anniversary of 

7 the Holodomor of 1932–1933, and extends its deep8 est sympathies to the victims, survivors, and families 

9 of this tragedy; 

10 (5) condemns the systematic violations of 

11 human rights, including the freedom of self-deter12 mination and freedom of speech of the Ukrainian 

13 people by the Government of the Soviet Union; 

14 (6) recognizes the findings of the Commission 

15 on the Ukraine Famine, as submitted to Congress 

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

17 and those around him committed genocide against 

18 the Ukrainians in 1932–1933’’; 

19 (7) encourages dissemination of information re20 garding the Holodomor of 1932–1933 in order to ex21 pand the world’s knowledge of this manmade trag22 edy; and 

23 (8) supports the continuing efforts of the people 

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1 ciples, a free economy, and full respect for human 

2 rights in order to enable Ukraine to achieve its full 

3 potential in accord with the desires of the Ukrainian 

4 people and to deepen the partnership between 

5 Ukraine, the United States, and all democratic na6 tions. 

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