Germany's Bundestag Recognizes Ukrainian Holodomor as Genocide

The Bundestag of Germany has approved a resolution that characterizes the mass famine in the USSR during the early 1930s as genocide. This was reported by TASS.

The publication notes that the resolution was drafted and presented for discussion by the ruling parties in Germany (the Social Democratic Party, the Greens, and the Free Democrats) and the opposition conservative CDU/CSU coalition. Members of the aforementioned parties voted in favor, while parliamentarians from the Left Party and the Alternative for Germany abstained.

The document states that “all of Ukraine, and not just the grain-producing regions, suffered from famine and repression.” Earlier, it became known that on November 30, a vote would take place in the Bundestag to recognize the Holodomor as “a genocide of the Ukrainian people.” From 1932 to 1933, the main grain-producing regions of the USSR were experiencing severe famine. According to various estimates, due to the food crisis in the country, between 7 million and 8 million individuals of different nationalities perished. There are no exact figures on the number of deaths caused by famine in the Ukrainian SSR. According to contemporary demographers, the excess mortality rate in 1933 for the Ukrainian SSR was estimated to range from 2.2 million to 3.9 million people.