[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 187 (Friday, December 2, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8723]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  STANDING IN SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE

  (Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAPTUR. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in solidarity with the people 
of Ukraine and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who recently honored the 
over 14 million of his countrymen in Ukraine who died during the 
Holodomor, the Soviet-enforced famine that purposefully starved Ukraine 
in the early 1930s to subjugate them and politically control them.
  Then, as now, the tyrants of the Soviet Union, Josef Stalin, and 
Russia used food and famine as a weapon of war. Innocent civilians are 
not unintended victims but, rather, specific targets of horrific 
brutality to rule over them.
  Russia's and Putin's aim in this modern era, waging a war on Ukraine, 
is to kill, maim, starve, freeze, and torture as many men, women, 
elderly, and children as possible.
  These are war crimes. Putin and his enablers are war criminals. But 
the courageous Ukrainian people have not broken, they have not bent. 
They fight on with great valor.
  As Ukraine leads this righteous fight for her liberty, her 
sovereignty, and her very survival, it is incumbent upon all free 
nations to aid her in her time of need.
  Ukraine, America stands with you. The world stands with you. We pray 
and fight for the day that your home will be a peaceful, enterprising, 
and virtuous one again.

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