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It was 75 years ago that the Stalinist machinery set in motion one of the worst crimes that Europe has ever known: the Holodomor, the great famine which took the lives of over three million Ukrainians.
Having been deprived, as they still are, of important defining elements of their collective identity, Ukrainians were deliberately deprived of food, in a cruel demonstration of ‘real socialism’ and in a context of forced collectivisation and sovietisation campaigns conducted by one of the most homicidal regimes in history.
Ukrainians, together with all other Europeans, are today remembering the Communist brutality, tyranny and violence that rained down on them and that constituted, under international law, a clear case of genocide. The intention of ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part’, in the exact words of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, is absolutely clear.
One year ago, the President of this Parliament described the Holodomor as a ‘terrible crime against humanity’. I wholly subscribe to that view and bow my head in memory of the victims. I salute all Ukrainians, particularly those who live and work in my country, Portugal."@en1
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