PRINTER'S NO. 2250
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE RESOLUTION
No.
256
Session of
2023
INTRODUCED BY HANBIDGE, CERRATO, SANCHEZ, MALAGARI, MADDEN,
FREEMAN, PIELLI, SCHLOSSBERG, KINSEY, BENHAM, HOWARD,
McNEILL, DELLOSO, HILL-EVANS, GUENST, KHAN AND GREEN,
NOVEMBER 2, 2023
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, NOVEMBER 2, 2023
A RESOLUTION
Designating the month of November 2023 as "Ukrainian Holodomor-
Genocide Remembrance Month" in Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, Ninety-one years ago, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
and his totalitarian regime committed an act of genocide through
the implementation of an engineered famine, confiscating all
foodstuffs from the Ukrainian people, resulting in the deaths of
7 million to 10 million innocent men, women and children; and
WHEREAS, This genocide, the Holodomor, meaning "murder by
starvation," was specifically designed by the Soviet regime to
punish independent-minded Ukrainians for their resistance to
Stalin's political, economic, cultural and social subjugation;
and
WHEREAS, Even as the Soviets continued to export Ukraine's
grain to the rest of the world, Ukrainian farmers who tended to
the farms in the breadbasket of Europe, were purposefully
starved in a slow and painful death; and
WHEREAS, At the height of the Holodomor in 1933, Ukrainians
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