Politics National Council recognizes Holodomor in Ukraine as an act of genocide

The starvation of several million people in Ukraine around 90 years ago, for which the Soviet regime under Josef Stalin was responsible, is an act of genocide. These are the words of a declaration that the National Council approved by a clear majority on Tuesday.

The declaration was requested and formulated by the majority of the Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC-N). The Council adopted it by 123 votes to 58, with seven abstentions, against the wishes of the SVP. It will now be distributed via the diplomatic network of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.

According to the declaration, the National Council recognizes the victims of the Holodomor as an act of genocide. According to the text, four million Ukrainians, around two million Kazakhs and hundreds of thousands of Russians died during the famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933.

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