Nationalists in the Parliament want the criminal to punish the denial of the Holodomor

Elected officials From the Ukrainian nationalist party Svoboda proposed criminal liability for public denial of the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people, the relevant draft law was registered in the Verkhovna Rada in the first day of the week.

Ukraine has a law that recognizes the Famine of 1932-1933, which covered most of the agricultural regions of the USSR, genocide. However, unity in the assessment of those events by historians and the Ukrainian community to the present time no. Ukraine calls On world brotherhood, the UN and Russia officially recognized the Holodomor as a genocide.

The document, for example, involves making changes to the criminal and criminal procedural codes of Ukraine regarding the establishment of responsibility for public denial of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 in Ukraine as genocide against the Ukrainian people, and the Holocaust as a fact of genocide of the Jewish people ". The text of the document on the Internet representation as long as there is no. This proposal was made by the MPs From the " Freedom " Igor Miroshnichenko and Alexander peace, the terms of office are due to expire November 27 - first day of work Happy new convocation.

above the head of the security Service of Ukraine Valentyn Nalyvaichenko said that he would propose a new composition of the Verkhovna Rada to criminalize the denial of the Holodomor.

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.

Ukraine's position regarding the famine of 1932-1933 causes disagreement Russia. For example, in the capital of Russia believe that it is aimed at the separation of peoples. As adopted by the 58th session of the General Assembly of the United Nations on 10 November 2003 " General statement " the Famine was called the tragedy of the Ukrainian people, but about the " genocide " not a word was said. In the document, which became the response to the call of the then President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma to honor the memory of victims of the famine in Ukraine, were also called upon to commemorate the victims of famine, collectivization and the civil war not only in Ukraine but also in Russia and Kazakhstan.


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