STRASBOURG, April 27 (Itar-Tass) - It would be incorrect and unfair to recognize the famine in the Soviet Union in the 1930’s as genocide of the Ukrainian people only, President Viktor Yanukovich of Ukraine said Tuesday. He said it while taking the floor at a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
“This was a common tragedy of the peoples who made up the former USSR ,” Yanukovich said. “Holodomor /the way that the Ukrainians call the famine of 1932 and 1933 – Itar-Tass/ affected Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus and it was a result of the policies pursued by Stalin’s totalitarian regime.”
“This fact has been acknowledged in all the countries that were stricken by famine. It’s incorrect and unfair to recognize Holodomor as an act of genocide specifically aimed at one or another nationality,” Yanukovich said.
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