a famine most believe was deliberately created by russia, and by its then leader, josef stalin. a photo exhibition depicting the tragedy is on show in kyiv, as ukrainians want to make sure more people get to learn about it. holodomor is always commemorated on the last saturday of november, but russia s invasion of ukraine has meant that this year s event is more pointed than usual indeed, more politicised. the bbc s europe regional editor paul mossjoins me now. paul. this event. how did it happen? . this was the early 1930s when stallings repression was at its height. he was repressing everybody. anti communist and communists who thought were loyal. anyone who looks at him badly. he had a particular aptitude towards presidents. he tried to create a culture where everyone would work together for the greater good. that did not work. he
Ukraine holds memorial day for the victims of the ‘Holodomor’ famine when Josef Stalin was Russia’s leader. Millions of Ukrainians starved to death after Russian police seized all grain, livestock and seed from farms.
is far more financially lucrative to go to work in hospitality, and the pressures are a lot less in that sector than they are in care. how do you solve that? ultimately it really does come down to pay. what we would like to see is parity with the nhs, where the pay levels are much greater. it is not right that people should get lured away into hospitality and retail. actually mostly not because they want to, generally people who work in care really love the people they support, they really enjoy the work. they get a great deal of personal satisfaction out of it. it is not because they want to leave, but they have to do, because they civilly can t pay their bills. jackie o sullivan, thank you very much for speaking to us. staying in ukraine , the country is today marking the holodomor . that s the terrible famine which killed millions of ukrainiansa in the 1930s
Some 93% of Ukrainians agree with the statement that the 1932-1933 Holodomor famine was a genocide of the Ukrainian people, according to a survey conducted by the Rating Sociological Group on November 20-21.