> BERLIN, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Lawmakers from Germany’s ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters.
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> The draft describes the Soviet leadership’s attempts to control and suppress farmers as well as Ukrainian culture and language through hunger and repression. This “from today’s perspective, suggests a historical-political classification as genocide. The German Bundestag agrees with this classification”.
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> According to German media reports, the draft will be debated and passed in the Bundestag lower house of parliament next week.
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> Romania, Ireland and Moldova are among the countries that have already declared the Holodomor to be a genocide.
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> German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock welcomed the Bundestag lower house of parliament’s efforts and that there is a lot of support, said a ministry spokesperson on Friday.
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> A government spokesperson said that Chancellor Olaf Scholz also welcomed the support, but did not comment further.
Its purely political. Historical research is fairly clear on this issue, but that doesnt matter.
CDU and FDP get to condemn communism again, and SPD and Greens get to signal support for Ukraine without doing anything.
Just in time.
Opportunistic hypocrites.
Seriously? Nothing more recent worth condemning? Even in genocide category.
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> BERLIN, Nov 25 (Reuters) – Lawmakers from Germany’s ruling coalition and opposition want to declare the Holodomor, the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians in 1932-33 under Soviet leader Josef Stalin, a genocide, according to a draft motion seen by Reuters.
>
> The draft describes the Soviet leadership’s attempts to control and suppress farmers as well as Ukrainian culture and language through hunger and repression. This “from today’s perspective, suggests a historical-political classification as genocide. The German Bundestag agrees with this classification”.
>
> According to German media reports, the draft will be debated and passed in the Bundestag lower house of parliament next week.
>
> Romania, Ireland and Moldova are among the countries that have already declared the Holodomor to be a genocide.
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> German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock welcomed the Bundestag lower house of parliament’s efforts and that there is a lot of support, said a ministry spokesperson on Friday.
>
> A government spokesperson said that Chancellor Olaf Scholz also welcomed the support, but did not comment further.
Its purely political. Historical research is fairly clear on this issue, but that doesnt matter.
CDU and FDP get to condemn communism again, and SPD and Greens get to signal support for Ukraine without doing anything.
Just in time.
Opportunistic hypocrites.
Seriously? Nothing more recent worth condemning? Even in genocide category.