On 28 November 2020, Ukrainians will honor the memory of the innocent victims of one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the Ukrainian people - the Holodomor of 1932-1933.

This crime of the Soviet government is considered to be one of the most brutal and large-scale crimes against humanity of the twentieth century. The comprehensively planned and implemented genocide of the Ukrainian people claimed more than a thousand lives every day. As a result, millions died and even more were not born. This was the price that Ukrainians "paid" for trying to restore their national independence in 1917-1920.

For decades, the memory of the national tragedy of Ukrainians was destroyed, and the very facts of the Holodomor were denied. But due to the joint efforts of the governments of independent Ukraine, scholars, Ukrainian communities abroad and diplomats, the struggle to recognize the Holodomor as genocide has become a priority of the foreign policy and has begun to bring the results - official recognition at the level of foreign governments, parliaments and international organizations.

The international recognition of the Holodomor of 1932-33 as genocide should be a manifestation of the international solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Properly honoring the memory of the victims and comprehensively studying the crimes of the Soviet regime is a common moral duty and an effective way to prevent the recurrence of similar tragedies in the future.