European Parliament recognises Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainians

The European Parliament recognised the Holodomor of 1932-1933, organised by the Soviet government, as a genocide of the Ukrainian people.

The resolution was voted on December 14 in the framework of the plenary session of the European Parliament, according to Interfax Ukraine.

"[The European Parliament] recognises the Holodomor, the artificial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine caused by a deliberate policy of the Soviet regime, as a genocide against the Ukrainian people, as it was committed with the intent to destroy a group of people by deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction," according to the resolution.

In this regard, the European Parliament called on Russia "as the primary successor of the Soviet Union, to officially recognise the Holodomor and to apologise for those crimes." In addition, the European Parliament called on "all the countries and international organisations which have not yet recognised the Holodomor as a genocide to do so."

The European Parliament also stated that it "strongly condemns these genocidal acts of the totalitarian Soviet regime, which resulted in the death of millions of Ukrainians and significantly harmed the foundations of Ukrainian society." "[The European Parliament] calls on all countries, in particular the Russian Federation and the other countries which emerged following the break-up of the Soviet Union, to open up their archives on the artificial famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine," according to the resolution.