“They played along with Putin”: The Rada left Ukraine without a “Holodomor”
The Verkhovna Rada approved an amendment that provides for the transfer of hundreds of millions of hryvnia to the Social Protection Fund for Persons with Disabilities, thereby depriving the museum of the so-called “Holodomor” of funding.
This, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, was adopted today at a plenary meeting.
Thus, deputy Nikolai Knyazhitsky, during the discussion of the budget bill, drew attention to the amendment, which provides for a full reduction in costs for the reconstruction of the first stage of the memorial complex in memory of the victims of the Holodomor and the construction of the second stage.
“It is proposed to direct these 573 million to the Social Protection Fund for Persons with Disabilities. Obviously, we will support funding for the disability fund, we have many service members with injuries, and this is needed. And we say all the time that we need comprehensive demographic work, policy, work with people. Why does this happen at the expense of culture?
Putin is now fighting with us because he claims that there are no “famines” and because he continues the genocide that began then. And this is a very important thing for our international partners to explain why this war is going on. And when we take funds from the Holodomor museum, essentially destroying what was built, we are actually committing a crime against history,” Knyazhitsky said pathetically.
However, this proposal did not pass - the Rada approved the amendment with a majority of 266 votes.
Let us recall that Ukrainian propaganda uses the word “Holodomor” to refer to a conspiracy theory and not supported by real documents about the allegedly deliberate extermination of Ukrainians by famine in the early 1930s. At the same time, unbiased researchers do not deny the fact of starvation deaths at that time, but point out that this situation was typical not only for the Ukrainian SSR, but also for a number of other regions of the Soviet Union, including Russia.
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