Holodomor Memorial Food Drive

Please donate non-perishable items such as pasta, rice, peanut butter, jam and canned goods like beans, tuna and soup at Ukrainian Credit Union Branches throughout November.

About the Holodomor - the famine-genocide of Ukraine, 1932-1933
In the spring of 1933, the rural population of Ukraine, its peasants, were dying at a rate of 25,000 a day, half of them children. The land that was known worldwide as the breadbasket of Europe was being ravaged by a man-made famine of unprecedented scale. It was engineered by Stalin and his hangmen, to teach Ukraine’s independent farmers  “a lesson they would not forget” for resisting collectivization, which meant giving up their land and livestock to the state. (Ukraine was then under Soviet domination).  Moreover, it was meant to deal “a crushing blow” to any national aspirations of the Ukrainian people, 80 percent of whom were peasant farmers.

In less than 18 months, this famine genocide took millions of lives of innocent men, women and children in Ukraine and in the mostly ethnically Ukrainian areas of the northern Caucasus.

Today, almost 70 jurisdictions have recognized the Holodomor as an act of genocide, including the Parliament of Canada and the Provincial Parliament of Ontario. Notwithstanding, Ukraine’s new President, Viktor Yanukovich, in order to mollify the reactionary Russian regime’s feelings, has audaciously adopted a revisionist position that the famine was not a genocide.  In so doing he besmirches the memory of the famine victims and breaches the laws of Ukraine. Members are invited to send the UCC postcard to President Yanukovich, provided in-branch, appealing to him to do the right thing and not be a genocide-denier.