Eduardo González
The Popular Parliamentary Group in Congress has asked the Government to recognize the Holodomor (the “famine”) of the period 1932-1933 in Ukraine as “an act of genocide, perpetrated inhumanely and cruelly by Stalin’s communist regime against the people of Ukraine”.
In a non-law Proposal presented on April 4 for debate in the Foreign Affairs Commission, the PP assures that “the Stalin regime executed one of its cruelest plans in 1932-1933, which aimed to end the the lives of millions of Ukrainians.”
Through the decree of forced collectivization of agriculture and the expropriation of land, he continues, “all the peasants’ crops were seized and, using what was known as the law of ears, they were deprived of freedom of movement and access to food, which ended with the massive death of millions of peasants and their families.” “This macabre program, perfectly designed and planned by Stalin’s regime, is known as Holodomor, a word derived from Ukrainian and which translates as ‘famine’ and ‘death’,” it adds.
In 2007, the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) of Ukraine approved the Law on the Holodomor in Ukraine of the years 1932-1933, “which includes in its preamble the concept of genocide according to international jurisprudence and declares the Holodomor as a genocide against the people.” Ukrainian,” recalls the PP.
Later, at the end of 2022, in the midst of the war caused by the Russian Federation “and the cruel and unjustified invasion of Ukrainian territorial integrity that has its precedent in the illegal annexation of Crimea and the invasion of the Donetsk and Lugask regions In 2014,” the Ukrainian Parliament called on the international community “to recognize the Holodomor as a crime of genocide against the Ukrainian people,” the motion continues.
That call “had an almost immediate response from the Irish Senate and the German Bundestag and today there are numerous Parliaments of United Nations member states that recognize the Holodomor as a crime of genocide against the Ukrainian people,” among them, Estonia, Australia, Canada, Hungary, Lithuania, Georgia, Poland, Peru, Paraguay, Ecuador, Colombia, Mexico, Latvia, United States, Portugal and Czech Republic.
“Considering that the Holodomor refers to the acts that caused the planned death of millions of innocent Ukrainians, that Spain is committed to the defense and promotion of Human Rights, which also represents one of the axes of our foreign policy, it is our moral duty respond positively to this call from the Verkhovna Rada that will contribute to strengthening and honoring the Ukrainian people,” warns the PP.
For this reason, the Non-Law Proposition urges the Government to “recognize the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine as an act of genocide, inhumanly and cruelly perpetrated by Stalin’s communist regime against the people of Ukraine” and to “show solidarity and honor the memory of the victims of the Holodomor 1932-1933 in Ukraine publicly.” It also asks the Government to continue “determinedly supporting, within the framework of the European Union, economic, humanitarian and military aid to Ukraine to defend its democracy and territorial integrity against the authoritarian Russian regime.”
