Statement by the President on the Ukrainian Holodomor Remembrance Day Seventy six years ago, millions of innocent Ukrainians – men, women, and children – starved to death as a result of the deliberate policies of the regime of Joseph Stalin. Tomorrow, we join together, Ukrainian-Americans and all Americans, to commemorate these tragic events and to honor the many victims. From 1932 to 1933, the Ukrainian people suffered horribly during what has become known as the Holodomor – “death by hunger”... read more