“I express solidarity with the people of Ukraine and with President Volodymyr Zelensky, who recently commemorated the more than 14 million of his compatriots who died during the Holodomor, a mass famine deliberately staged by the Soviet Union in the early 1930s to suppress Ukraine and establish political power over it. control,” Kaptur said.
According to the congresswoman, "then the tyrants of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, used food and hunger as weapons."
Today, the politician believes, Russia is supposedly doing this, and Kyiv needs to continue to be supported.
“Ukraine, America is with you.
The whole world is with you,” said Kaptur.
Recall that in the first half of the 1930s, a massive famine began in the USSR due to mistakes in the economic policy of the Soviet government.
Millions of residents of Ukraine, Belarus, the Volga region, the Central Black Earth region, the North Caucasus, the Urals, Western Siberia and Kazakhstan became its victims.
However, the Kyiv authorities interpret the Holodomor as the targeted destruction of the Ukrainian people, with which Russian science fundamentally disagrees.
Read more about the Holodomor - in the material RT.