Today,
November 26 is an annual Holodomor Memorial Day in Ukraine, which falls on the
fourth Saturday of November, as the Ukrainians commemorate the victims of the
man-made famine designed by the Soviet leadership.
Photo from UNIAN
The
main commemorative event will be held at the National Memorial to the victims
of the Holodomor in Kyiv, Lavrska Street, 3. The vigil is to be attended by
Holodomor witnesses, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Prime Minister and
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, as well as representatives of diplomatic
missions, priests, and public. The national minute of silence is scheduled for
16:00 Kyiv time, and the all-Ukrainian action, "Light a Candle of
Memory," will start at 16:01.
Ukrainians
will light candles at the Holodomor memorials and in the windows of their homes
across Ukraine and around the world, in memory of their compatriots killed in
the genocide. As UNIAN reported earlier, the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences
estimated that the Holodomor death toll in the former Ukrainian Soviet
Socialist Republic totaled 4.5 million people (estimates of 2013), while 7-8
million people were killed by the "death by famine" Soviet policy of
the early 1930's. Besides Ukraine, the lion's share of the Holodomor losses was
recorded in North Caucasus and the Kuban. Twenty-three countries have
officially condemned and recognized the Holodomor as genocide of Ukrainian
people.
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