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House Resolution 1
A resolution designating November 26, 2022, as 2
"Holodomor Remembrance Day" in the State of Florida. 3
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WHEREAS, the Ukrainian Famine of 1932 -1933, known as the 5
"Holodomor," meaning murder by starvation, resulted in the 6
deaths of between seven and ten million Ukrainians, with a third 7
of the victims being children under 10 years of age, and 8
WHEREAS, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his totalitarian 9
regime committed an act of genocide through the implementation 10
of an engineered famine by confiscating land, crops, and 11
livestock from the Ukrainian people, and 12
WHEREAS, the Holodomor was specifically designed by the 13
Soviet regime to force collectivization and punish ind ependent-14
minded Ukrainians for their resistance to its economic, 15
political, and social oppression, and 16
WHEREAS, at the height of the Holodomor in 1933, an 17
estimated 25,000 Ukrainians died each day as the Soviets 18
continued to export Ukraine's crops to the rest of the world, 19
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WHEREAS, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, 21
documents created during this time surfaced which detail the 22
Soviet regime's actions and intent to destroy Ukraine's national 23
identity by deporting and executing Ukraine's religious , 24
intellectual, and cultural leaders and prosecuting or executing 25
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those who spoke publicly of the famine or against the Soviet 26
authorities, further destabilizing Ukraine's political 27
structure, and 28
WHEREAS, in April 1988, the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine 29
Famine, chaired by Congressman Daniel A. Mica of Florida, found 30
that the Holodomor constituted an act of genocide, and 31
WHEREAS, over 42,000 residents of the state have Ukrainian 32
ancestry, and 33
WHEREAS, the Holodomor is remembered by the global 34
community as a tragic and heinous crime, NOW, THEREFORE, 35
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Be It Resolved by the House of Representatives of the State of 37
Florida: 38
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That November 26, 2022, is designated as "Holodomor 40
Remembrance Day" in the State of Florida. 41