During a weekend commemoration for millions who died of starvation in Ukraine in the early 1930s, President Petro Poroshenko lashed out at Soviet-era totalitarianism for causing the deaths and accused today’s Russian-backed rebels in the east of using similar tactics.
Soviet leaders refused to acknowledge the famine of 1932 and 1933. They also confiscated grain supplies and prevented travel to find food, leading to what some call a Soviet-engineered “genocide.”
The tragedy known as Holodomor never would have happened if Ukraine had been an independent, democratic country, Poroshenko said Saturday.
“And, for the first time in almost 100 years, the Ukrainian …read more
Source: Voice of America
