Open Lecture on the Holodomor Memorial Day

22.11.2025

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology Yehor Brailian delivered an open lecture on the Holodomor Memorial Day.

On November 17, 2025, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History and Archaeology Yegor Brailian delivered an open lecture “A Grain of Truth Against Soviet Propaganda: The History of the Struggle for International Recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-1933 as Genocide”. The historian emphasized that after World War II, the Ukrainian diaspora in Western Europe and Northern Europe began to inform governments and societies about how the Stalinist regime starved Ukrainian peasants. At the same time, the Soviet Union in every possible way denied the fact of the famine, forming through propaganda a narrative that these were “problems with grain procurement” in the early 1930s.