Every year on the fourth Saturday of November, Ukrainians light a candle in memory of the victims of the famines of 1921–1922, 1932–1933, and 1946–1947. This is our moral duty to our fallen compatriots. The truth about the Holodomor-genocide returns to the people’s memory, becomes their pain, requiem and a symbol of the indomitability of the Ukrainian people.
Ukrainian society faces the task of deeply rethinking the causes, character, and scale of the tragedy, perpetuating the memory of millions of our fallen compatriots. The famine of 1932–1933 was the result of the purposeful policy of the Bolsheviks against the Ukrainian peasantry. The totalitarian Soviet system artificially created conditions for Ukrainians that were incompatible with life.
The Holodomor of 1932–1933 became the greatest tragedy in the history of Ukraine in the 20th century. The act of genocide against Ukrainians is a deliberate measure of the top party leadership of the Soviet Union and the Ukrainian SSR led by Stalin. The enemy counted on the suppression of the Ukrainian national liberation movement and the physical destruction of the Ukrainian peasants. Breaking Ukraine for the Bolsheviks meant strengthening their power and demonstrating to the other allied republics that anything could be done with them.