Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre on the occasion of Holodomor Memorial Day condemned the Soviet-imposed famine in Ukraine and denounced the horrors wrought by communist ideology.
“In 1932 and 1933, Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime inflicted a deliberate famine across Ukraine. The Holodomor—‘death by hunger’—was a genocide that starved millions of innocent Ukrainians,” Trudeau wrote on the social media platform X on Nov. 23.
“In the face of these horrors, Ukrainians endured, protecting their language, their culture, and their identity.”
Poilievre also issued a statement condemning the man-made tragedy of 1932 and 1933, driven by “totalitarian communist ideology,” which resulted in the deaths of an estimated four million Ukrainians….