Zelensky honored the memory of the Holodomor victims: 90 years ago, the world could not see the truth
Kyiv • UNN
On Holodomor Remembrance Day, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy honored the memory of the victims of genocide and condemned attempts to deny such historical crimes. He linked the tragedies of the past to Russia's current aggression, arguing that justice for historical atrocities is necessary to prevent present and future crimes.
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Ukrainians and the world on the Holodomor Remembrance Day. As UNN reports, in his address, the head of state thanked everyone who is restoring the historical memory of the terrible events.
"Every year at the end of November we feel cold and frost on our skin. Regardless of the weather conditions and our location. The coldness inside our hearts, when we are all united by a difficult date - the fourth Saturday of November. The Day of Remembrance of the Holodomor Victims. When we feel great pain and and anger at the same time. It is the inability to forget, understand, and even more so to forgive the horrific crimes of genocide that the Ukrainian people experienced in the twentieth century.
Men, women, and children. Millions of innocent and murdered. Countless and uncountable. Countless at the time. When in the column "cause of of death" was written anything but the truth. Thousands of people were heartlessly "written off", they did not consider it necessary to count, did not consider people to be people. Countless in total. How many of them, starved to death, simply fell in the field, on the road, in their own yard? in their yard? How many were not found? How many were not searched for? When the leaders had one need - to keep everyone silent, and their relatives had neither the opportunity nor the strength to search for and prove the truth, and and then there was no one left to look for them. How many were there?
No one knows the exact answer to this question. Just like the answers to other questions. How can one want to kill an entire people, to erase an entire nation? How can you take away the last thing from people? The last food, the last means of livelihood, the last hope of the last hope for life and a chance for salvation. Normal people are not able to imagine or understand to imagine and understand this. But there is one thing we know for sure. They wanted to exterminate us, to subdue us, to kill us. They failed," the President said in his address.
He emphasized that hiding the truth from the world for years so that the terrible crimes could be forgotten forever.
"I thank everyone who, together with Ukraine, is restoring historical truth and justice. Who calls a spade a spade. And who does not who does not allow the names of those guilty of genocide and war crimes to hide behind lies about alleged non-involvement. 90 years ago, the world could not see the full the full extent of what was really happening. Now there are no those who do not see. There are only those who choose not to notice. There are not many of them. And there will be even fewer. The truth is making its way its way. On this path, the world must unite and condemn the crimes of the past. The world must unite and stop the crimes of the present.
In the last century, famine came from Moscow. Today. words of denial are coming from there. And each of these words of denial actually sounds like a confession: they need hunger as a weapon in the future. Hunger, cold, terror. Every ton of grain they are stealing now, every blockade of our cities, every Russian strike on our ports, on Ukrainian granaries and our elevators, every "Shahed" that targets our logistics, every Russian missile whose trajectory is against Ukrainian life is all the past that has returned, because it was not condemned in time. This is a process where the line of totalitarian Soviet policy and the policy of modern Russia form an equal sign together. Evil was not stopped. It was not atoned for. And now we are stopping it," the President said.
