November 27, 2009
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE TO WORLD UKRAINIANS
Dear members of the Ukrainian community,
Brothers and Sisters,
Ukraine, the world Ukrainians and all the people of good will honor millions of
victims of the Holodomor of 1932-33 – the most tragic page in the history of Ukraine
and one of the biggest humanitarian catastrophes in the times of humanity.
We consider it as the matter of national honor and our sacred responsibility to our
own people and before God to tell the entire world the truth about the Holodomor as
a genocide deliberately organized by the communist Stalin regime with the purpose
to bleed Ukraine and undermine its aspirations for freedom and independence.
Following the extensive research and information campaign we have succeeded in
bringing the facts of the Holodomor back into the Ukrainian and the world history.
Ever more nations and international organizations recognize it as an act of genocide
and condemn it as a crime of totalitarianism.
It is to the great merit of the world Ukrainians that we have accomplished this task. I
am deeply grateful to you for your perseverant actions and commitment to this
important national cause, for the Holodomor Torch Relay that has shown the truth to
many peoples across the world.
The work that we have commenced shall be continued as we are guided by our
personal and national conscience. The truth is the only way to moral healing and to a
future with dignity.
I am confident that together we shall prevail to restore the historical truth and
justice.
Let this year be marked in every Ukrainian house across the globe with the candle of
remembrance, which unites us into one family.
Glory to Ukraine !
Victor YUSCHENKO