Original sentence: According to hundreds of witnesses' testimonies to U.Congress Commission, the Holodomor was caused by combined effect of the drought and the seizure of the 1932 crop by the Soviet authorities.Further, the governments or parliaments of 26 countries recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide of Ukrainian people.Many Russian authors continue claiming that the Holodomor was not an act of genocide but a "mere famine".Some historians refer to the 1932-1933 famine in the Soviet Union as "man-made".The Holodomor (), also known by some as Ukrainian Genocide,   is the 1932–1933 on the territory of today's Ukraine, as well as some regions of Russia populated by ethnic Ukrainians.The Soviet government admitted famine's existence only in the late 1980s.The events of 1932-33 in Ukraine were seen by the Soviet Communist leaders as an instrument against possible Ukrainian self-determination
Edited sentence: As confirmed by hundreds of witnesses' testimonies to U.Congress Commission, the Holodomor was caused by the seizure of the 1932 crop by the Soviet authorities.It was also confirmed that "while famine took place during the 1932-1933 agricultural year in the Volga Basin and the North Caucasus Territory as a whole, the invasiveness of Stalin's interventions of both the Fall of 1932 and January 1933 in Ukraine are paralleled only in the ethnically Ukrainian Kuban region of the North Caucasus".Many Russian authors continue claiming that the Holodomor was not an act of genocide but a "mere hunger".The Holodomor (), also known as Ukrainian Genocide,   is the 1932–1933 man-made famine on the territory of today's Ukraine, as well as some regions of Russia populated by ethnic Ukrainians.The Soviet Government admitted famine's existence only in the late 1980s.The events of 1932-33 in Ukraine were seen by the Soviet Communist leaders as a "final solution" against possible Ukrainian self-determination.The governments or parliaments of 26 countries recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide of Ukrainian people.This was also confirmed by foreign observers in 1933