Today, November 28 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.
The main commemorative event will be held at the National Memorial to
the victims of the Holodomor in Kyiv, Lavrska Street, 3. At 15:00, the vigil is
to be attended by Ukraine’s top officials and church leaders. Police and
security services will be guarding the venue, so the local residents and the
city guests will not be allowed passage near the Memorial at this particular
time.
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.
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