Germany will adopt a resolution recognizing as “genocide» the famine in Ukraine caused 90 years ago by the Stalinist regime, according to a draft resolution of the coalition and the opposition unveiled on Friday 25 November.
The draft resolution, tabled by the ruling coalition formed by the SPD, the Greens and the liberals of the FDP, as well as by the conservative opposition CDU-CSU, will be debated next Wednesday in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament.
“Famine” and “repression”
In 1932 and 1933, about 3.5 million Ukrainians fell victim to the “Holodomor (which means, in Ukrainian, extermination by starvation) committed by the Stalinist regime. Crops were confiscated in the name of land collectivization. This famine is part ofin the list of inhuman crimes committed by totalitarian systems that have caused the disappearance of millions of human lives in Europe, especially in the first half of the 20th century», Condemns the draft resolution, consulted by AFP.
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This crime”is part of our common history as Europeans“. “Famine and repression hit the whole of Ukraine, not just its grain-growing regions», emphasizes the draft resolution. “From the current perspective, it is therefore obvious that this is a genocide on the historical and political level.“, he adds. This classification asgenocide», a concept forged during the Second World War, also takes on current significance, with the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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“Warning sign”
“Once again, violence and terror must deprive Ukraine of its vital bases and submit the whole country“, underlines the ecologist deputy Robin Wagener, one of the initiators of the text. Calling the Holodomor “genocide” is a “warning sign“, according to him. Russian President Vladimir Putinis part of the cruel and criminal tradition of Stalin“, further denounces Robin Wagener.
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Ukraine has campaigned for years to have the Holodomor recognized as a genocide. Russia categorically refuses such a classification, because the great famine that struck the Soviet Union in the early 1930s had not only Ukrainian victims, but also Russians, Kazakhs, Volga Germans and members of other peoples .