The Ukrainian head Petro Poroshenko took part in the event in memory of the victims of the so-called Holodomor 1932-1933 recognized in Ukraine as genocide, said the press service of the Ukrainian President.
Ukraine has a law that recognizes the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as genocide. However, unity in the assessment of those events in the Ukrainian society up to the present moment no.
Poroshenko expressed a speech before the participants of the event. It was also attended by Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, the Mayor of Kiev Vitali Klitschko, former presidents of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk and Leonid Kuchma, as well as heads of public authorities and institutions, the people's deputies, Authorized the diplomatic corps and Authorized media.
Poroshenko expressed in the National Museum " memorial to the victims of Holodomor in Ukraine ", and also announced a minute of silence.
The famine of 1932-1933 covered the main grain regions of the USSR - Ukraine, North Caucasus, the Lower and middle Volga region, a significant part of the Central black earth region, Kazakhstan, Western Siberia, southern Urals. According to various sources, From hunger lost their lives 7-8 million people, including 3 - 3, 5 million in Ukraine, 2 million in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan and 2 - 2, 5 million in the RSFSR. Hunger got the detriment of all multinational population covered disaster areas.
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