Holodomor: Germany's parliament recognises Ukraine's 1930s famine as 'genocide'▼

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<p>Germany&#039;s parliament has approved a symbolic resolution recognising the 1930s famine in Ukraine as "genocide".</p> <p>Known in Ukraine as "Holodomor" - meaning murder by starvation - the famine is believed to have killed over 3 million Ukrainians under the repressive rule of then-Soviet leader Josef Stalin.</p> <p>Some historians claim Stalin purposely orchestrated the famine to eliminate the Ukrainian independence movement. Others say Holodomor was the result of the Soviet Union&#039;s botched policies to collectivise agricultural land.</p> <p>According to the resolution brought to the Bundestag - Germany&#039;s lower house of parliament - by the three parties in Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#039;s governing coalition and the main opposition bloc, "the mass deaths from hunger were not a result of failed harvests; the political leadership of the Soviet Union under Josef Stalin was responsible for them." Source