Ukraine Commemorates Stalin-era Famine
November 25, 2006
One of the millions of Ukrainian victims of the 1932-33 famine (file photo) (Ukrinform)
The famine has been blamed on the forced collectivization of land and the seizure of seed and food stocks.
Some historians have argued that authorities orchestrated the famine in order to destroy a Ukrainian independence movement. Ukrainian officials are seeking to have the United Nations recognize the famine as genocide.
(AFP)