Overview
- About 100 people gathered on November 22 at Prague’s Memorial to the Victims of Communism to honor those lost in the 1932–1933 Holodomor and the 1921–1923 and 1946–1947 famines.
- Ambassador Vasyl Zvarych said the Stalinist regime committed genocide that killed millions and sought to erase Ukrainian culture, language and identity.
- He called remembrance a shared duty to prevent a recurrence of such evil and noted that past crimes were not punished.
- Zvarych thanked the Czech Republic for recognizing the Holodomor as genocide and voiced hope that more countries will do the same.
- Participants drew connections between the historic famines and Russia’s current conduct in Ukraine, which the ambassador described as crimes against humanity and genocidal actions.