Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the "People's Front" fraction Irina Efremova took part in the events dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33.
"How many years have passed since the terrible happened in Ukraine, the Holodomor took place. How many years have we come here and every time we discover new figures, new surnames. Just at the stand I saw that every minute in Ukraine 17 people died of starvation, every hour - 1000 people, every day - about 25 thousand. human. These are terrible figures, impressive. It is impossible to convey the grief that you feel when you read the terrible testimonies of eyewitnesses: how in Kharkov on the sidewalks lay dead people, children, what was happening in the villages. It was purposefully the genocide of Ukrainians. This can not be forgotten so that the next generation does not survive the horror of those difficult years, "the press service of Kharkov's" Popular Front "quotes Irina Efremova as saying.