Status: 11/25/2022 8:53 a.m
According to the will of the traffic light coalition and the Union, the Bundestag should recognize the famine in Ukraine caused by Stalin 90 years ago as genocide. About four million people lost their lives in the “Holodomor”.
The traffic light coalition and the Union are calling on the Bundestag to recognize the famine in Ukraine that was deliberately brought about by Soviet dictator Josef Stalin 90 years ago as genocide. The “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and the “Spiegel” reported, citing a corresponding joint application by the SPD, Greens, FDP and CDU/CSU.
The draft resolution is to be discussed and approved in the Bundestag on Wednesday. Up to four million Ukrainians fell victim to the so-called Holodomor (“Murder by Hunger”) in 1932 and 1933. At that time, there were also deaths in other parts of the Soviet Union, such as Kazakhstan and southern Russia. The cause of the historical famine was a collectivization of agriculture and grain taxes ordered by Stalin.
Resolution sees genocide in Holodomor
Several countries have already classified and condemned the Holodomor as genocide against the Ukrainian people, including Ireland, the Republic of Moldova and Romania recently against the background of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. “The whole of Ukraine was affected by hunger and repression, not just its grain-producing regions,” the application says. “From today’s perspective, a historical-political classification as genocide suggests itself.
Helping to commemorate the victims: Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock together with her Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba during a visit to the Holodomor memorial in Kyiv on February 7, 2022.
Image: dpa
“The German Bundestag shares such a classification,” write the initiators around Green MP Robin Wagener, chairman of the German-Ukrainian parliamentary group in the Bundestag. The draft resolution goes on to say that the Holodomor joins “the list of inhuman crimes committed by totalitarian systems in the course of which millions of lives were wiped out in Europe, especially in the first half of the 20th century”. The crime is part of the common European history.
Putin is “in the criminal tradition of Stalin”
This “crime against humanity” has so far been little known in Germany and the European Union. The federal government is called upon to contribute to spreading knowledge about the Holodomor and to commemorating its victims.
According to the newspaper, Wagener said that Russian President Vladimir Putin was “in the cruel and criminal tradition of Stalin”. Today the Ukraine will again be covered with Russian terror. “Once again, violence and terror are intended to deprive Ukraine of its livelihoods and subjugate the entire country.” The political classification of the Holodomor as genocide is a “signal of warning”