The Russian Embassy in the United States harshly criticized American officials for trying to draw parallels between the “Holodomor” and Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine. The diplomatic department published a message regarding this in its newspaper. telegram channel.
“The United States once again supports the false thesis that the Soviet leadership deliberately and deliberately “starved” millions of Ukrainians. <…> The administration’s efforts to link the events of the first half of the twentieth century to a special military operation look even more ridiculous. “We see this as nothing more than a new attempt to demonize Russia,” embassy officials wrote.
Diplomats recalled that large-scale food shortages, caused, among other things, by crop failure, led to a humanitarian catastrophe throughout the USSR in the early 1930s. The embassy described these events as a common tragedy for many ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, including Russians, Ukrainians and other peoples.
The embassy noted that accusations against Russia look especially absurd in the face of the actions of Western countries, which are now buying cheaply and exporting Ukrainian grain and making huge money on it.
This is how Russian diplomats interpreted yesterday’s statement by US President Joe Biden, who described the famine in Ukraine in the 1930s as the result of the “inhumane policies of the Soviet regime” and compared it with current events in the country.
Formerly at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs commented Italy recognizes “Holodomor” as genocide against Ukrainians.