Bulgaria’s Parliament declared the Holodomor in Ukraine a Genocide - Two Parties Voted "Against"

With 134 votes "in favor", 26 "against" and no "abstentions", the National Assembly in a joint project proposed by the Foreign Policy Committee declared the Holodomor in Ukraine in 1932-1933 a genocide and categorically condemned its perpetrators.

The decision also declares every last Saturday of November as a Day of Honor and Remembrance for the victims of the Holodomor in Ukraine.

The National Assembly designates any denial, justification and belittling of this genocide, as an act of insulting the memory of the millions of people who died in the Holodomor, it is written in the document.

Initially, two draft resolutions were submitted on the subject - to the PG of "Democratic Bulgaria" (DB) on declaring an act of genocide of the Holodomor in Ukraine 1932-1933 and the other republics of the former Soviet Union and on the GERB-SDS on declaring the Holodomor Famine in Ukraine in 1932-1933 for genocide. In the end, the committee on foreign policy united around a common project, explained its chairman Ekaterina Zaharieva.

The Great Famine in 1932-1933 - Holodomor, covered the main grain regions of the former USSR - Ukraine, the North Caucasus, the Lower and Middle Volga, Kazakhstan, Western Siberia and the Southern Urals. Seven to eight million people died of starvation during this period, three and a half million of them in Ukraine, two million in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and two to two and a half million in Russia.

The reasons marked the 90th anniversary of the Holodomor and emphasized that it was one of the worst mass crimes against humanity "perpetrated by the inhumane Soviet communist regime, during which more than eight million lives were destroyed, among them many children and dozens thousands of Ukrainian and Moldavian...