Pope Francis, speaking to thousands of people in St. Peter's Square in his weekly general audience, mentions the 'Holodomor,' or death by starvation, in which millions of Ukrainians died.
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis said on Wednesday, November 23, that Ukrainians were suffering today from the “martyrdom of aggression” and compared Russia’s war in Ukraine to the “terrible genocide” of the 1930s, when Soviet leader Josef Stalin inflicted famine on the country.
“This Saturday marks the anniversary of the terrible genocide of the Holodomor, the extermination by famine of 1932-33 that was artificially caused by Stalin,” he said. For hundreds of years, the Ukrainian language and any expression of Ukrainian culture and independent identity were quashed, first under the Russian Empire of the tsars and later by the Soviets.
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