[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1109 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1109

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Ukrainian 
    famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, is recognized as a 
 genocide and should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies 
                     against the people of Ukraine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2022

Mr. Bacon (for himself, Mrs. Spartz, Ms. Spanberger, and Mr. Schneider) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
                           on Foreign Affairs

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                               RESOLUTION


 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Ukrainian 
    famine of 1932-1933, known as the Holodomor, is recognized as a 
 genocide and should serve as a reminder of repressive Soviet policies 
                     against the people of Ukraine.

Whereas, in 1932 and 1933, millions of Ukrainians perished from a famine 
        engineered by the former Soviet Union, designed to break the Ukrainian's 
        resistance to communist occupation and to provide a cover for a campaign 
        of repression and persecution carried out by the Soviet Union against 
        the citizens and culture of Ukraine;
Whereas the Soviet Union forced the people of Ukraine to relinquish their land, 
        personal property, and housing to collective farms and then confiscated 
        grain harvests, starving the men, women, and children of Ukraine;
Whereas the Soviet Union sealed the borders of Ukraine to prevent the delivery 
        of humanitarian aid and to prevent Ukrainians from escaping;
Whereas the entire nation of Ukraine suffered from the prolonged famine, 
        resulting in the death of nearly a quarter of the rural population of 
        Ukraine;
Whereas title V of the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the 
        Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1986 (Public Law 99-
        180; 99 Stat. 1157), signed into law on December 13, 1985, established 
        the Commission on the Ukraine Famine to ``conduct a study of the 
        Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933 in order to expand the world's knowledge 
        of the famine and provide the American public with a better 
        understanding of the Soviet system by revealing the Soviet role'' in it;
Whereas the Commission on the Ukraine Famine, Investigation of the Ukrainian 
        Famine 1932-1933: Report to Congress, adopted by the Commission, April 
        19, 1988, and submitted to Congress April 22, 1988, found that in 1932 
        and 1933, the Government of the Soviet Union had committed genocide 
        against the Ukrainian people;
Whereas with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, archival documents confirmed 
        the premeditated nature of the famine and exposed the atrocities 
        suffered by the Ukrainian people;
Whereas Ukraine's law N 376-V titled ``About the 1932-1933 Holodomor in 
        Ukraine'' of November 28, 2006, gave official recognition to the 
        Holodomor as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people;
Whereas President George W. Bush signed into law Public Law 109-340 on October 
        13, 2006, authorizing the Government of Ukraine ``to establish a 
        memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the 
        victims of the Ukrainian famine-genocide of 1932-1933'', which was 
        officially dedicated in November 2015;
Whereas the Government of Ukraine and the Ukrainian communities in the United 
        States and worldwide continue their efforts to secure awareness and 
        understanding of the 1932-1933 tragedy; and
Whereas victims of the Holodomor genocide of 1932-1933 continue to be 
        remembered: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the Ukrainian famine of 1932-1933, known as 
        the Holodomor, as a genocide;
            (2) solemnly remembers the atrocities of the Holodomor of 
        1932-1933, and extends its deepest sympathies to the victims, 
        survivors, and families of this tragedy;
            (3) condemns the systematic violations of human rights, 
        including the starvation, repression, and persecution of the 
        Ukrainian people by the Soviet Union;
            (4) recognizes the findings of the Commission on the 
        Ukraine Famine as submitted to Congress on April 22, 1988;
            (5) encourages dissemination of information regarding the 
        Holodomor of 1932-1933 in order to increase an understanding of 
        the Soviet engineered genocide denied by the Kremlin for more 
        than half a century; and
            (6) is resolute that Ukraine remain independent and 
        sovereign to protect the people from future genocide.
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