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sl8

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Sat Nov 26, 2022, 07:36 AM Nov 2022

German lawmakers want to declare 1930s Ukraine famine a genocide

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/german-foreign-minister-welcomes-efforts-114959221.html

German lawmakers want to declare 1930s Ukraine famine a genocide

Fri, 25 November 2022 at 6:49 am·1-min read

BERLIN (Reuters) -Lawmakers from Germany's ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters.

The draft describes the Soviet leadership's attempts to control and suppress farmers as well as Ukrainian culture and language through hunger and repression. This "from today's perspective, suggests a historical-political classification as genocide. The German Bundestag agrees with this classification".

According to German media reports, the draft will be debated and passed in the Bundestag lower house of parliament next week.

Romania, Ireland and Moldova are among the countries that have already declared the Holodomor to be a genocide.

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German lawmakers want to declare 1930s Ukraine famine a genocide (Original Post) sl8 Nov 2022 OP
Russia's allies are abandoning them...... Lovie777 Nov 2022 #1
As they should. 2naSalit Nov 2022 #2
+1 WA-03 Democrat Nov 2022 #3

Lovie777

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1. Russia's allies are abandoning them......
Sat Nov 26, 2022, 08:56 AM
Nov 2022

economy is failing, their support is failing. Putin is failing and therefore he must destroy Ukraine.

Ukraine will survive but at a horrible loss.

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