On the eve of the commemoration by the Ukrainian people of the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor on November 25, 2023, the Ukrainian House in Denmark initiated a campaign to inform Danish parliamentarians and society about the Holodomor in order for the Danish parliament to recognize the Holodomor as genocide.
In anticipation of future hearings on the recognition of the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people in the Danish Parliament in December of this year, the Ukrainian House in Denmark initiated the creation and transfer to Danish parliamentarians of symbolic objects and information letters signed by activists and leaders of Ukrainian organizations in Denmark, including the Association of Ukrainians in Denmark and representatives Ukrainian religious organizations
Today, the public initiative group to recognize the Holodomor as genocide of the Ukrainian people met with members of the parliamentary committee on foreign policy, and with the help of the parliamentary secretariat, each Danish parliamentarian received a composition of five ears of wheat, as a reminder of the ominous Soviet “Law on 5 ears of wheat”, according to which hundreds thousands of Ukrainians were killed or sentenced to imprisonment in Siberia. The law was one of a series of decrees by the Stalinist regime that made possible the targeted and deliberate starvation of more than 4 million Ukrainians 90 years ago.
“Unfortunately, Denmark does not have a tradition of parliamentary recognition of genocides (the Armenian genocide remains unrecognized in Denmark), but today the Ukrainian state and community are raising a discussion among Danish political parties about the need to recognize the Holodomor as a genocide of the Ukrainian people,” noted public activist Zhanna Shevchenko.
“We cannot leave the issue of recognizing the Holodomor to genocide historians, because societies must take on political responsibility – to recognize the crimes of the Soviet regime, in particular, the most hidden crime of the Soviet regime against millions of Ukrainians 90 years ago.
In the 1930s of the last century, it depended on Danish politicians, and not historians, to what extent Denmark could help the Ukrainians. Unfortunately, despite the coverage of the Holodomor in the Danish media, the government's response at the time was rather limited. Today, when Denmark is a leader among the countries supporting Ukraine in the modern war against Russia, we expect that the Danes will correct this historical injustice by recognizing the Holodomor as genocide, and will continue to assist Ukraine in establishing justice in the 21st century,” commented the head of the Ukrainian House in Denmark Natalya Popovich.
Earlier it was reported that the state of Wyoming became the 32nd US state to recognize the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide of the Ukrainian people.
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