Slovakia recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people
On June 20, the Slovak Parliament adopted a resolution recognizing the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. The authors of this resolution, representing pro-Western political parties, emphasized the importance of unequivocally pointing to Russia's past crimes and striving to prevent similar events from occurring in Ukraine or any other country in the world, particularly in the context of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war where Russia seeks to destroy Ukrainian national identity and physically eliminate Ukrainians as a nation, as reported by the Slovak publication SITA.
"The famine in Ukraine, along with the Holocaust, is the most tragic event against humanity on the European continent. It caused the death of millions of Ukrainians and Ukrainians, and it was cynically planned and cruelly implemented by the Soviet regime in order to implement Soviet policies of collectivization of agriculture and suppress the Ukrainian population and its national identity," Slovak deputies stated.
Thus, the Slovak Parliament officially recognizes the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as a genocide of the Ukrainian people. This artificially induced famine was a result of the deliberate policies of the Soviet regime under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, with the aim of annihilating Ukrainians by creating unbearable living conditions that led to the death of millions.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has already thanked the Parliament of Slovakia for adopting the resolution, calling it a timely decision and a significant contribution to restoring historical justice and honoring the millions of innocent victims, as he wrote on Twitter.
The Holodomor was an artificially created famine during the Stalinist repressive regime in 1932-1933, during the peak of collectivization, which involved forced seizure of private property and organization of collective farms. As a result of these events, according to various estimates, between four to six million Ukrainians, predominantly in rural areas, perished due to lack of food.
To date, the Holodomor has been recognized as a genocide of the Ukrainian people by the parliaments of more than two dozen countries around the world, as well as the European Parliament. Prior to Slovakia, Croatia also recognized the Holodomor, with the local parliament adopting a relevant resolution. Zdenko Lucic, the State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Croatia, stated that the proposed declaration by the Croatian parliament recognizes the Holodomor as an artificial famine deliberately organized by the communist-Stalinist regime in Ukraine in 1932-1933. Lucic added that this is a crime of genocide against the Ukrainian people.