Detachable Subdivision
"Rivne Professional College of
National University of Life
and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine"
The Holodomor is a genocide of the Ukrainian nation committed in 1932-1933. It was committed by the leadership of the Soviet Union in order to subjugate the Ukrainians and finally eliminate Ukrainian resistance to the regime. In 2006, the Law of Ukraine “On the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine” recognized the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people. In 2010, a resolution of the Kyiv Court of Appeal proved the genocidal nature of the Holodomor, the intention of Stalin, Molotov, Kaganovich, Postyshev, Chubar, Khataevich, and Kosior to destroy part of the Ukrainian nation. During the commission of the particularly serious crime of genocide in 1932-1933, the communist totalitarian regime destroyed millions of Ukrainians.
In 1984, the US Congress created a special Commission to investigate the artificial famine in Ukraine. The Executive Director of the Commission was American historian James Mace. The Commission concluded that Stalin and his entourage committed an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people. This report of the Commission was approved by the US Congress in 1988. In the same year, at the initiative of the World Congress of Free Ukrainians, an International Commission of Jurists was created to investigate the evidence of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, its causes, consequences, and perpetrators. The Commission concluded that the Holodomor was an act of genocide.
Under the influence of the revelations, the USSR was finally forced to admit the fact of the famine of 1932-1933. In 1993, independent Ukraine commemorated its anniversary for the first time at the state level – 60 years after the tragedy.
In 1998, the Decree of the President of Ukraine established the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims - every year on the fourth Saturday of November. On this day, Ukrainians light candles in their windows - in memory of all those killed by hunger. In 2006, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the Law on Recognizing the Holodomor as Genocide of the Ukrainian People. And in November 2008, the National Memorial to the Victims of the Holodomor was built in Kyiv.
This year, Ukrainians once again commemorate the victims of Stalin's genocide in the context of a full-scale war with Russia. A war that is once again accompanied by genocidal practices - the Russian regime no longer hides its goal of destroying Ukrainian identity. The crimes and tragedies that are unfolding before our eyes clearly demonstrate that honest memory is extremely important. Those who commit crimes against humanity must be convicted, and the victims must be duly honored. Otherwise, unpunished evil will return again and again.
The college's library and information center has opened a book exhibition "Famine -33 - an unhealed wound of Ukraine." We invite you to view it.
Svitlana ANDRIYCHUK,
Lead Librarian of the BIC
