Famines in the Soviet Union

A memorial ceremony at a monument to Holodomor victims in Kyiv, November 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEY DOLZHENKO.

Croatian MPs unanimously voted on Wednesday to adopt a declaration recognising the Holodomor of 1932-33 as a crime of genocide committed by the Soviet authorities against the Ukrainian people.

The National Assembly has passed a declaration whereby Slovenia recognizes the Holodomor, a famine with which the Soviet authorities starved millions of Ukrainians to death in 1932 and 1933, as genocide.

With 134 votes "in favor", 26 "against" and no "abstentions", the National Assembly in a joint project proposed by the Foreign Policy Committee declared the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 a genocide and categorically condemned its perpetrators.

The decision also declares every last Saturday of November as a Day of Honor and Remembrance for the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine.

In a series of Twitter posts, Timothy Snyder says he believes Vladimir Putin is using the instability of the food supply chain to his advantage, calling such a strategy "the last chapter in hunger politics."
"Russia has a hunger plan. Vladimir Putin is preparing to starve much of the developing world as the next stage in his war in Europe", Snyder wrote.

8.7 million people in the country are at risk of famine