Historical responsibility for the Holodomor lies with the Russian Federation as the successor to the USSR — President

“Historical responsibility for the Holodomor lies with the Russian Federation as the successor to the USSR, and this crime has no limitations period,” President Petro Poroshenko noted in the course of the ceremony of honoring memory of the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33.

"Russia again, like a hundred years ago, launched an aggression against Ukraine to bring it back to the empire. In the Kremlin, they again hate and fear a free European Ukraine. But I know for sure that they will no longer be able to turn the wheel of history back," Petro Poroshenko emphasized.

The Head of State noted that thousands of people come to the National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial" every year in the late autumn. "They come from different parts of Ukraine and from distant countries. They bring here the desire to honor the dead and remind the world of one of the greatest crimes of the twentieth century - the Holodomor organized by the Kremlin," Petro Poroshenko noted.

According to him, the genocide of the Ukrainian people was thoroughly planned. "They wanted to resolve the Ukrainian issue forever, which has been haunting Russia’s mind for centuries and, frankly speaking, it still does. In the early thirties, the memory of the Ukrainian National Revolution, the centenary of which we celebrate this year, was still fresh. Our revolution turned out to be too romantic, too much hoped for peace and brotherhood, too little cared about the army. Because of this, it was suppressed by invasion from the north," he said.

At the same time, the President stressed that national consciousness awakened by the revolution remained: "Russian-Bolshevik tyranny tirelessly extinguished the fire of freedom, but it was still the same or even emerged with a new force. The history of Ukraine of that period shows a large number of uprisings, as the farmers did not want to give away grain, bread for free, and the Ukrainization, which Stalin viewed as a temporary gift, was perceived by the national communists seriously and vigorously, strengthening our Ukrainian identity. "The secret idea of ​​millions was expressed by the short slogan of Mykola Khvylovy: “Away from Moscow!" along with the other one in our linguistic style of those times: “Europe now!".

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