MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT PETER GOLDRING SPEAKS OF UKRAINIAN HOLODOMOR ON PARLIAMENT HILL

Ottawa – Peter Goldring, Member of Parliament for Edmonton East, spoke of genocide in the House of Commons today, urging parliamentarians to learn the lessons of the Holodomor, the murder by starvation of eight million Ukrainians in Ukraine in the 1930s.

“If we do not speak up to support historical truths of mankind’s failings, the dark side of humanity, in Canada and around the world,” Mr. Goldring said, “the former Soviet Union revisionist historians will educate the world with their version of the truth.

“The bitter irony for Ukrainians was that they were murdered by starvation in a land so bountiful that it’s called the ‘Breadbasket of Europe’.

“It is important that we stand up for historical truths,” Mr. Goldring says. “Future generations need to be made aware of just how evil Stalin’s actions were, and hopefully humanity will learn not to repeat such genocides.”

The full text of Mr. Goldring’s statement reads:

Mr. Speaker,

We remember today the 8 million who perished in Ukraine’s Holodomor, brought on by Stalin in the 1930’s.

The bitter irony for Ukrainians was that they were murdered by starvation in a land so bountiful that it’s called the ‘Breadbasket of Europe’.

Shamefully, as millions perished in Ukraine, Western nations were silent and some unconscionably even purchased from the Soviets crops that were stolen from Ukraine’s starving farmers.

The importance of speaking about and remembering the truth of the Holodomor, of the Genocide continues here today.

If we do not speak up to support historical truths of mankind’s failings, the dark side of humanity, in Canada and around the world, we risk to repeat, and the former Soviet Union revisionist historians will educate the world with their version of the truth.

We remember today and for all time the Holodomor, the Genocide in Ukraine.