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77th anniversary of the Holodomor

In 1932-1933 Stalin's Soviet Union planned to starve the Ukrainian kulak peasants by seizing their harvest, confiscating food supplies and prohibiting to sell them. These induced famine claimed the lives of millions people.

Ukraine commemorates Holodomor ("causing death by hunger") every year on the fourth Saturday of November. The Public Committee for the Memory of the Victims invited people to light a candle in front of every home's window on Saturday, November 27. "If nowadays authorities do not do anything to remember the worst tragedy in Ukrainian history, it is society which must do something", said Mykola Zhulynsky, director of the Shevchenko Literature Institute and member of the organizing committee.

Ukrainian World Congress appeals to Ukrainians worldwide to join the Remembrance Candle commemoration this November 27, 2010, on Holodomor Memorial Day. The campaign’s initiatives for that day include:
- memorial services in churches,
- appeals to other religious denominations to honour Holodomor victims’ memories,
- display of signs reading “1932-33 Holodomor – genocide of Ukrainians”,
- Ukrainian flags adorned with black ribbons flown from government and Ukrainian establishments and private homes;
- one minute of silence to be observed from 19:32 to 19:33 (7:32 to 7:33 PM) local time as a symbolic representation of the Holodomor years, followed by prayers in memory of the millions of murdered Ukrainians; and
- the lighting of candles in every church, community centre and in the windows of homes.


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