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17-04-2006 19:19 President Viktor Yushchenko visited exhibition of 13 models of future memorial complex honouring Ukraine's famine victims, underway at Kyiv House of Artists
Speaking to journalists about the exhibition, the President said: "Today, the nation is learning to appreciate the profoundness of that tragedy. We are becoming increasingly aware of our responsibility to honour those who perished."
He also opined that the 1932-1933 genocide famine was the tragedy for all the people of the world. The complex will be built on the Dnipro River slopes, where the Head of State planted a snowball-tree garden last year. According to rough estimates, between April 1932 and November 1933, with consideration of indirect victims, the famine, being organized by the Stalin regime, took 14 million of human lives. As Viktor Yushchenko believes, the tragedy of 1932 - 1933 touched every Ukrainian family, having totally devastated 11,000 villages. According to the President, it was a real war against Ukrainians. The President tasked the politicians to defend the historical memory and to exert every effort to make the world recognize the Ukrainian famine as a genocide act in the chain of genocide acts of the 20th century.
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