The Italian parliament's upper chamber, the Senate, voted on July 26 to recognize the Holodomor -- the starvation of millions in Ukraine in the 1930s under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin -- as genocide. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba expressed gratitude to Italy, saying, "This important step restores historical justice, honors millions of victims, and warns future generations against the crime of genocide." In all, 28 countries have recognized as genocide the 1932-33 famine that occurred as Stalin's police forced peasants in Ukraine to join collective farms by requisitioning their grain and other foodstuffs. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service, click here.
Italy's Senate Votes To Recognize Holodomor Famine In Ukraine As Genocide
A sculpture of a girl with spikelets in her hands, part of the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, in Kyiv