103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. CON. RES. 140
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Whereas this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Ukraine
famine of 1932–1933;
Whereas, within one year, an estimated 7 million to 10 mil-
lion people starved to death in Ukraine because of forced
collectivization and grain seizures from the rural popu-
lation by the Government of the Soviet Union;
Whereas Public Law 99–180 established the Commission on
the Ukraine Famine to conduct a study to expand the
world’s knowledge of the famine and to provide the
American public with a better understanding of the
former Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role in the
Ukraine famine;
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Whereas the Commission’s report to Congress confirms that
Communist dictator Joseph Stalin consciously employed
the brutal policy of forced famine to repress the Ukrain-
ian peasantry in order to suppress Ukrainian self-asser-
tion;
Whereas, on February 7, 1990, the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Ukraine acknowledged that the
Ukraine famine was artificially created by the policies of
Stalin and his closest associates;
Whereas internationally accepted principles of human rights
condemn the use of food as a political weapon;
Whereas the official observances of the Days of Sorrow and
Remembrance of the Victims of the Imposed Famine
were held for the first time this year on September 10
through 12 in Kiev, Ukraine; and
Whereas members of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine
presented a copy of 4 volumes of their findings and con-
clusions, 10 volumes of archival material, and 200 audio
cassettes of testimony from famine survivors to the Gov-
ernment of Ukraine following the official observances in
Kiev: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring),
SECTION 1. SENSE OF CONGRESS.
It is the sense of the Congress that—
(1) the victims of the Soviet-engineered Ukraine
famine of 1932–1933 be solemnly remembered on its
60th anniversary;
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(2) this anniversary underscores the hardship
and inhumanity of life under the repressive regime
of the Soviet Union;
(3) the Congress condemns the systematic dis-
regard for human life, human rights, and human lib-
erty that characterized the policies of the Govern-
ment of the Soviet Union during the Ukraine famine
of 1932–1933;
(4) the presentation of a copy of the findings
and conclusions of the Commission on the Ukraine
Famine to the Government of Ukraine, as well as
the supplemental material, will assist in the dissemi-
nation of information about the Ukraine famine of
1932–1933, and thereby help to prevent similar fu-
ture tragedies; and
(5) the manmade Ukraine famine is a graphic
illustration of the unacceptable alternative to democ-
racy and a free market economy, and therefore the
United States should seek to help Ukraine and the
other newly independent nations of the former Soviet
Union as they transform their societies.
SEC. 2. TRANSMITTAL OF RESOLUTION.
The Clerk of the House of Representatives shall
transmit a copy of this resolution to the President and
the Secretary of State and request that the Secretary of
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State transmit a copy of the resolution to the Government
of Ukraine.
Passed the House of Representatives October 12,
1993.
Attest:
Clerk.