The French parliament has recognized as “genocide” the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, a move welcomed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
In a resolution adopted by 168 votes to 2, the legislators called on the French government to do the same as the current Russian invasion in Ukraine revives memories of the atrocity meted out on Ukraine in the 1930s by Stalin.
The 1932-33 “Holodomor”—the Ukrainian word for “death by starvation”—is regarded by Kyiv as a deliberate act of genocide by Stalin’s regime with the intention of wiping out the peasantry. Stalin’s campaign of forced “collectivization” seized grain and other foodstuffs and left millions to starve. Kyiv has urged the international community to declare the starvation in Ukraine as “genocide.”
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