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In spring 1934, two boys find a cache of potatoes during the Holodomor famine in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union. (Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
In Ukraine, the events are called "Volhynia tragedy". [230] [4] Coverage in textbooks may be brief and/or euphemistic. [231] Some Ukrainian historians accept the genocide classification, but argue that it was a "bilateral genocide" and that the Home Army was responsible for crimes against Ukrainian civilians that were equivalent in nature. [229]
The National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide (Ukrainian: Національний музей Голодомору-геноциду, romanized: Natsionalnyi muzei Holodomoru-henotsydu), [2] formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of the Holodomor-Genocide in Ukraine, is Ukraine's national museum and a centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932–1933, a man-made famine that ...
The same year Ukraine produced 27% of the Soviet harvest but provided 38% of the deliveries, and in 1931 it made 42% of the deliveries. Yet the Ukrainian harvest fell from 23.9 million tons to 18.3 million tons in 1931, but the previous year's quota of 7.7 million tons remained.
As part of the event, video testimonies of the Soviet regime's crimes in Ukraine were shown. Documentaries made by famous Ukrainian and foreign movie directors were also played, and experts and scholars offered lectures on the topic. [7] The National Bank of Ukraine released a set of commemorative coins commemorating the Holodomor on November ...
Ukrainian Insurgent Army: 490 Poles: Gurów massacre: July 11, 1943 Gurów Ukrainian Insurgent Army: 410 Poles: Poryck massacre: July 11, 1943 Poryck: Ukrainian Insurgent Army: 300 Poles: Zagaje massacre: July 11–12, 1943 Zagaje Ukrainian Insurgent Army: 260–350 Poles Budy Ossowskie massacre: August 29, 1943 Budy Ossowskie Ukrainian ...
Along with the war in Ukraine, Addario's work has documented everything from the California wildfires to flooding in South Sudan in recent months. "I feel like as I get older, I kind of get wiser ...
Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on 17 May 2010 near Memorial to the Holodomor Victims in Kyiv. Members of the international community have denounced the Soviet government for the events of the years 1932–1933; however, the classification of the Ukrainian famine as a genocide is a subject of debate.