Plea for a public commemoration of the Holodomor

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On february 24, 2022, the Russian army started the invasion of Ukraine. Few hours before the invasion, Putin described Ukraine as “the allegedly Ukrainian territories". Already on  February 21, he had stated that Ukraine was Lenin's invention and that in 1954 Khrushchev handed Crimea to the Soviet Socialist Republic of Ukraine as a post-war compensation.

Indeed, the action of the Russian army aims at annihilating the invaded Country and replacing the democratically elected Government with one controlled by the Kremlin.

The Ukrainian national sentiment and identity date back to ancient times, long before the onset of Tsarist Russia, and today they are strongly reflected in the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people.

In early 1930's Stalin imposed a policy of collectivisation of agriculture and crop requisition. Whoever opposed this policy, was jailed, deported or even sentenced to death. The famine caused by these repressive measures adopted by the government led to the death of about 4 million Ukrainians.

In 2003 Russia e the United States signed a joint declaration condemning those measures.
"In former Soviet Union, millions of men, women, and children died as a consequence of the cruel actions and policies of that totalitarian regime. The Great Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (the Holodomor) caused the death of millions of innocent people. [...]"

On October 23, 2008 the European Parliament also recognized the genocide, defining the Holodomor “as an appalling crime against the Ukrainian people, and against humanity.”

We wish to remember that huge tragedy perpetrated by human beings against other human beings; we wish to express our full support and solidarity to the Ukrainian people; we wish to remind the Italian and European civilized society, associations, and political parties that the right to life and personal liberty of that people is again jeopardized by that same totalitarian regime hosted in the Kremlin; we wish to invite the civilized society and political organizations to join in defence of freedom and democracy, which are the fundamental values of the Italian Constitution and the European Union.

We invite you all to join us for the commemoration of the Holodomor in memory of millions of men, women, and children killed by the lunacy of a dictatorship.

The battle Ukraine is fighting is not only a battle in defence of a territory, but above all a battle of a free people against oppression and abuse, it is a battle in defence of the founding values of our democratic society. Supporting the Ukrainian people is a duty of every free citizen.

Let us join the Ukrainian diaspora to commemorate the World Holodomor's Day on November 26, 2022 at 5 p.m., Piazza San Francesco, Bologna.

The Association,
Liberi Oltre Le Illusioni
 

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