Russia described today as “disgusting anti-Russian zeal” the vote in the National Assembly (the lower house of the French parliament) on a decision recognizing the Gladomora as genocide – the famine caused in the early 1930s in Ukraine by the Soviet authorities and which formed the basis of several million deaths there, reported France Press.
“The anti-Russian zeal of French MPs seems all the more disgusting given that France itself has not yet closed the page on its crimes from the colonial period,” said Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
The National Assembly adopted its resolution on Tuesday almost unanimously (168 votes to 2). With it, the deputies recognized the Hunger Games as a genocide, called on the French government to do the same, to meet the strong expectation from Kiev in connection with such a painful memory revived by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, France Press notes.
The adopted text officially recognized “the genocidal nature of the forced and planned famine by the Soviet authorities against the Ukrainian population in 1932 and 1933.
According to Maria Zakharova, Russia is once again faced with the duplicity and Russophobia of its European opponents. The spokeswoman criticized the double standards of the collective West and described France’s step as a “meaningless action, hastily organized to please the Kiev regime”.
Known as the breadbasket of Europe for its fertile lands, Ukraine lost several million inhabitants during the Great Famine of 1932-1933 amid land collectivization orchestrated, historians say, by Stalin to crush any push for independence. that country, which at that time was a Soviet republic.
In mid-December, the European Parliament also defined the famine as genocide. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has already welcomed the decision of the French Parliament and described it as historic for Ukraine, BTA reported.
Russia categorically refuses this qualification for what happened and points out that the great famine in the 1930s caused the death not only of Ukrainians, but also of Russians, Kazakhs and other nations.
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