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Russia condemns German parliament for declaring Ukraine Soviet-era famine a genocide

A woman places a candle at a monument to Holodomor victims during a commemoration ceremony of the famine of 1932-33, in which millions died of hunger, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine November 26, 2022. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko

Russia said on Thursday the German parliament's move to recognise the 1932-33 famine in Ukraine as a Soviet-imposed genocide was an anti-Russian provocation and an attempt by Germany to whitewash its Nazi past.

In a decision welcomed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, German lawmakers passed a resolution on Wednesday declaring the death by starvation of millions of Ukrainians - the Holodomor - was genocide.

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