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VOLUME 135              NUMBER 113              1ST SESSION              36TH PARLIAMENT  

Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Mr. Inky Mark (Dauphin - Swan River, Ref,): Mr. Speaker, as many as seven million Ukrainians were starved in Soviet Socialist dictator Josef Stalin's artificial forced famine in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933.

This is approximately the total population of Manitoba, Newfoundland, British Columbia, New Brunswick, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia and P. E. I. ...

VOLUME 135              NUMBER 117              1ST SESSION              36TH PARLIAMENT

Monday, June 8, 1998
Mr. Rick Borotsik (Brandon - Souris, PC): Mr. Speaker, this week the Ukrainian Canadian community is commemorating the 65th anniversary of he 1932-1933 man made famine genocide in Ukraine, engineered by soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in which some 7 million Ukrainians perished.

Soviet party leaders with the aid of military troops and secret police units seized every last scrap of food. Whole villages became a mass of corpses. Large parts of Ukraine were blockaded, no food was allowed in, no people were allowed out. While guarded warehouses were filled with grain. Ukrainian peasants were beaten, arrested and even shot for trying to take the few remaining kernels lying on the fields. Their extermination was a matter of state policy.

Food is still a favourite weapon with many authoritative regimes in the world today. It has been said that those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

We join today with members of the Ukrainian community and other Canadians in remembering the atrocities of this crime against humanity.

VOLUME 135              NUMBER 119              1ST SESSION              36TH PARLIAMENT

Wednesday, June 10, 1998
Ms. Samite Bulte (Parkdale - High Park, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, the Ukrainian community in my riding of Parkdale - High Park and Ukrainians worldwide are commemorating the 65th anniversary of the 1932-1933 famine in Ukraine. This famine is considered to be the largest famine of the 20th century and one in which some seven million Ukrainians, perished.

In 1932, under Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union dramatically increased its grain procurement. Wheat grown on Ukrainian farms was shipped to Russia and as a result many Ukrainians were unable to feed themselves....

Mr. John Solomon (Regina - Lumsden - Lake Centre, NDP): Mr. Speaker, almost a lifetime ago in my grandparents' home country, seven million Ukrainians starved to death at the hands of Joseph Stalin. Determined to bring Ukraine under Soviet control, Stalin starved the very Ukrainian farmers whose grain he then shipped to Russia and sold to western countries. The food left Ukraine, but the people were barricaded in. The results devastated and nearly destroyed an entire generation of Ukrainians. In the words of one Soviet writer, people were "dying in solitude in slow degrees - trapped and left to starve, each in his own home".

Moreover, it was a crime in Ukraine to discuss the famine. Many international observers dismissed it as a rumour until documents surfaced in the 1980s.

Canada became the new home for many Ukrainian famine survivors after the second world war. All Canadians join with them and their families as they mark this month, the 65th anniversary of the Ukrainian famine. We pledge: "We remember. Never again".

Media Watch Ukraine is an advocacy group for balanced, accurate media coverage of Ukrainians.