The Ministry of foreign Affairs of Russia said that the distortion of historical facts about the famine in the Soviet Union during 1932-1933 aimed at inciting anti-Russian sentiment.
- RIA Novosti
The Ministry said that recently in the information space of a number of Central Asian States “artificially inflated the theme of the famine 30-ies”.
“Historical documents indicate that as a result of the famine that struck large areas of the country, killing about 7 million people, including more than 2.5 million in the Russian part of it. The famine 30-ies had a mass and indiscriminate nature”, — stated in the text.
In the foreign Ministry emphasized that the famine was the result of a series of events, in particular drought, crop failure and emergency measures of the Soviet government.
“Because of this, to consider common to the peoples of the USSR a tragedy as a deliberate “extermination” of certain groups… — a deliberate provocation aimed at fomenting anti-Russian sentiments and ethnic hatred in friendly countries”, — explained in the Ministry.
The Ministry also expressed hope that the distortion of historical facts will not be able “to confuse the Russians fraternal peoples of Central Asia”.
In December 2018, the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that the house of representatives of the United States Congress recognized the Holodomor 1932-1933 genocide against the Ukrainian people.