Holodomor Day!

Today is Holodomor (Голодомо́р) Remembrance Day in the Ukraine and around the world. It remembers the 2.5–7.5 million Ukrainians killed by a Moscow-imposed faminein 1932 and 1933. The Soviet Government helped the famine spread by: it's strict requisition quotas, criminalised gleaning, blacklisting anti-Communists, nationalists and intellectuals, restrictions on freedom of movement (peasants were not issued internal passports until the 1960s and so couldn't officially leave their regions), an information blockade throughout the USSR and the Ukraine itself, extensive export of grain and other food to get foreign currency, the refusal by the Moscow Government to provide aid for the starving. The Governments of: the Ukraine, Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Moldova, Peru, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, the United States and the Vatican officially recognize the Holodomor as a genocide against the Ukrainian people.

The current Moscow-supported war in the Crimea and eastern Ukraine shows how not much changes over the years. Since February 20, 2014: 2,432 Ukrainians have been killed, 6,820 wounded, 378 are missing and 2,768 have been captured. They may not be killed or wounded during a famine, but both the Holodomor and the Crimea Crisis and Donbas War were/are being planned and carried out with the full support of the Federal Government in Moscow.