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Germany to recognise Stalin famine in Ukraine as 'genocide'

Country faces a new potential hunger crisis

25 November, 20:29
(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, NOV 25 - Germany is to declare the 1930s starvation of millions in Ukraine under Joseph Stalin a "genocide", adopting language used by Kyiv, according to a draft text seen by AFP on Friday. The joint resolution by deputies from Germany's centre-left-led coalition and the opposition conservatives is also intended as a "warning" to Russia as Ukraine faces a potential hunger crisis this winter due to Moscow's invasion. Lawmakers plan to vote on the resolution next Wednesday following Ukraine's memorial day for the Holodomor, as the famine is known, which falls on the last Saturday in November each year. The Holodomor belongs on "the list of inhuman crimes by totalitarian systems in which millions of human lives were wiped out" in the first half of the 20th century, the draft text reads, including those committed by Nazi Germany. "People across Ukraine, not just in grain-producing regions, were impacted by hunger and repression," an orchestrated policy that "meets the historical-political definition from today's perspective for genocide". German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock lent their backing to the parliamentary declaration on Friday via their spokespeople. (ANSA-AFP).

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