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Statement by the President on Remembering Holodomor | The White House

Each November we solemnly honor and pay tribute to the millions of innocent Ukrainians who suffered and perished during the Holodomor – “death by hunger” – in 1932 and 1933. The men, women, and children who lost their lives during this famine were victims of the brutal policies and deliberate acts…

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