To the 91st Anniversary of the Holodomor

22.11.2024

Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukraine commemorates the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 and the mass artificial famines of 1921-1923 and 1946-1947.

In 2024, the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims of the  falls on November 23. For the Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims, the Brianka Professional College of LTSNU held a number of memorial events, such as: an hour of mourning “The Past Lives as Long as It Is Remembered”, the “Light a Candle” campaign. Concern was expressed about the fate of innocent victims of the totalitarian regime, the perception of other people’s misfortune and pain as their own…

You can also watch “Holodomor – Revenge for Our Freedom” by the link:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLitKIb_cEyqfd-Bg3I4YfbDtkfSxgm1NO&si=RKeD3watDNSUgRjw

As reported by the students-participants of the commemoration, based on photo and video materials of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, the Holodomor is an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people, carried out by the leadership of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and the government of the USSR in 1932-1933, by organizing an artificial mass famine, which caused the death of millions of Ukrainians in rural areas in Ukraine and the Kuban, where the vast majority of the population was Ukrainians, with the aim of suppressing the Ukrainian national liberation movement and physically destroying part of the Ukrainian people.

Through the forcible seizure of food, the blockade of villages and entire districts, the ban on traveling outside the borders of famine-stricken Ukraine, the curtailment of rural trade, and the repression of dissent, the totalitarian system created living conditions for Ukrainians that were incompatible with life. Such a regime policy is a crime against humanity, which corresponds to the UN Convention of December 9, 1948 on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Knowing about of the Holodomor in Ukraine of 1932-1933 helps people around the world better understand the nature of the modern Russian criminal war and the genocidal practices that accompany it.

The Russians are once again using genocidal methods against Ukrainians to destroy our identity, language, and culture. The Russian war against Ukraine is aimed at destroying our independence and the originality of the Ukrainian people.

That is why this year the commemoration of the victims of the Holodomor is held under the slogan “Light a candle in memory of the Holodomor victims. Fight for Ukraine and support the soldiers.”

We call on everyone to bow their heads and remember in a national minute of silence on November 23 at 4:00 PM the millions of human lives that Ukraine lost due to the Holodomor and mass artificial famines. Light a candle in memory or a lamp. Fight for Ukraine and support the soldiers! After all, every light in the window is an expression of our grief, memory and faith in the future.

According to the Brianka Professional College