From November 14 to 24, 2022, the Faculty of Law hosted an online marathon of presentations on the theme: “Five Five spikelets is the price of life!”, dedicated to honoring the victims of the Holodomor that was the Genocide of 1932-1933 in Ukraine.
Memorial Day falls on the fourth Saturday of November in accordance with the Decree of the President of Ukraine dated November 26, 1998 “On the establishment of the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Famine and Political Repression”. This year, on November 26, people around the world will once again light millions of candles and remember the innocent victims of one of the greatest genocides in human history.
Scientific and pedagogical workers and the 1st and 3rd years students of the faculty took part in the event. While watching the multimedia presentations prepared by the students, the participants of the online marathon recalled the terrible events of MANUFACTURED FAMINE.
“The Holodomor of 1932-1933 is one of the most tragic pages in the history of the Ukrainian people. Trying not to overshadow the “successes of socialist construction”, the Soviet leadership imposed a taboo on this theme. It was not allowed to openly talk about the terrible disaster and mention it in newspapers and official documents. Ukraine was surrounded along the perimeter of its borders by blocking units to prevent the appearance of hungry peasants in other republics. The peak of the Holodomor came in the spring of 1933. At that time, 17 people died of hunger in Ukraine every minute, 1,000 every hour, and almost 25,000 every day. In order to hide these terrible consequences and further tame Ukraine in the second half of 1933, an All-Union committee on resettlement was formed. According to its decisions, in Odeskyi, Dnipropetrovskyi, Donetskyi, and Kharkvskyi regions, Russians and Belarusians were systematically resettled in place of starving Ukrainians”, Svitlana Holovko, the professor of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law said.
In addition to multi-million human losses and a huge moral blow, the Holodomor caused irreparable damage to Ukrainian national life and practically destroyed a Ukrainian village with rich folk traditions.
We were killed and are being killed because we are Ukrainians! We will not forget! We will not forgive! We will win!