German lawmakers want to declare 1930s Ukraine famine a genocide

 

Annalena Baerbock, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany 

BERLIN (Reuters) 

Lawmakers from Germany's ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide.

The draft describes the Soviet leadership's attempts to control and suppress farmers as well as Ukrainian culture and language through hunger and repression. This "from today's perspective, suggests a historical-political classification as genocide. The German Bundestag agrees with this classification".

The Bundestag is the German federal parliament. It is the only federal representative body that is directly elected by the German people. It is comparable to the United States House of Representatives or the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. Wikipedia

Founded: 7 September 1949, Quay Bonn-Bundeshaus, Bonn, Germany