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Remembering Holodomor: Tragic events in Soviet Ukraine widely remebered as genocide

Across Ukraine, ceremonies have been held to commemorate the famine in the country in the years 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor. It claimed some 4.5 million lives. In Kyiv, a memorial brought togeth er religious and political leaders, members of the public, and survivors of the famine. Loaves of bread where stacked up symbollicaly. Others carried ears of wheat. Both gestures in memory of those who had nothing to eat in the 1930s as the Soviet authorities imposition of collective farm and grain requisitioning left farmers and their families in villages with nothing to survive on. Ukraine, and many countries around the world, have labelled the events of a 1932-33 as genocide. Check out our website: http://uatoday.tv Facebook:   / uatodaytv   Twitter:   / uatodaytv