On Nov. 23, 2019, Ukrainians lit candles and placed flowers during a memorial ceremony near a monument to the victims of the Holodomor, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s mass starvation of at least four million Ukrainians from 1932-1933.
This is Vasyl Tsyba. He’s almost 93. He survived the Holodomor famine, orchestrated by the Soviets in 1932-1933. This is his story. Watch the video about Mykola Onyshchenko, another Holodomor witness, here.
Find out more about Holodomor in Kyiv Post’s explainer.
Read about the expansion of the Holodomor museum here.
Ukrainians mourn victims of multiple mass famines
Read excerpts of Anne Applebaum’s book “Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine” and a Kyiv Post interview with the author published Nov. 24, 2017.
