PRINTER'S NO. 1340
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
244
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, ARGALL, EICHELBERGER, BROWNE,
TARTAGLIONE, HUGHES, KILLION, HUTCHINSON, MENSCH, HAYWOOD AND
COSTA, NOVEMBER 15, 2017
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, NOVEMBER 15, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating the month of November 2017 as "Ukrainian Genocide
Remembrance Month" in Pennsylvania and urge all individuals,
groups, organizations and institutions to remember the
Holodomor with appropriate activities designed to honor its
victims and educate the world about this tragic episode in
the world's history.
WHEREAS, Eighty-five years ago, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
and his totalitarian regime committed an act of genocide through
the implementation of an engineered famine, confiscating land,
grain and animals from the Ukrainian people resulting in the
deaths of up to 10 million innocent men, women and children; and
WHEREAS, This genocide, Holodomor, meaning "murder by
starvation," was specifically designed by the Soviet regime to
punish independent-minded Ukrainians for their resistance to its
economic, political and social oppression; and
WHEREAS, At the height of the Holodomor in 1933, Ukrainians
died at the rate of 25,000 a day with nearly a third of its
victims being children less than 10 years of age; and
WHEREAS, Even as the Soviets continued to export Ukraine's
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