US lawmakers recognized the famine of 1932-1933 in the Ukrainian SSR as genocide of the Ukrainian people. This was reported today by the press service of the Embassy of Ukraine in the United States on your Facebook account.. "The US Senate unanimously adopted a bipartisan resolution, which was the first in the history of the legal act of the US Congress, where the famine of 1932-1933 was recognized as the genocide of the Ukrainian people," the statement reads.. It is noted that the Senate recorded in the document the findings of the American Government Commission on Hunger in Soviet Ukraine (dated April 22, 1988. ) that "Stalin and his entourage committed genocide against Ukrainians in 1932-1933". The resolution condemns systematic violations of human rights, including the rights to self-determination and freedom of speech, committed by the Soviet government against the Ukrainian people, expressing condolences to the victims and their families, calls for the dissemination of information to raise world awareness of the artificial nature of this tragedy.. "The draft of such a resolution was also approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US House of Representatives and is now awaiting consideration during a plenary session," the diplomatic mission said.. The resolution recognizing the famine as "genocide of Ukrainians" was submitted to Congress at the beginning of this June.. Recall that the famine of the 30s of the last century covered, apart from Ukraine, entire regions of the USSR — the Volga region, the Central Black Soil Region, the Southern Urals, Western Siberia, the North Caucasus, Belarus and Kazakhstan..

This tragedy was the result of mass collectivization in the countryside, the dispossession of strong peasant farms, and forced grain procurements.. According to various estimates, about 40 million Soviet citizens suffered from hunger, who died, perhaps from 2 to 8 million people.. When the Americans claim that the Stalin and his entourage are to blame for the famine genocide of Ukrainians in the Ukrainian SSR, I would like to list the names of this entourage and performers, which will end up with Ukrainian roots, as well as fixing the deaths of other nationalities on the territory of Soviet Ukraine.