RIA Novosti reports that Ukraine's parliament has voted overwhelmingly to pass a bill recognizing as genocide the allegedly state-orchestrated mass famine suffered by Ukrainians in the early Soviet era, and prohibiting its public denial.Some estimates allege that up to 10 million Ukrainians, starved to death during the 1932-33 famine, known in the country as Holodomor, caused by Joseph Stalin's drive to collectivize farms in the land once known as the USSR's breadbasket.
The bill, tabled by President Viktor Yushchenko, was passed in a 233-1 vote just days after the nation commemorated the devastating Soviet-era famine's victims on Holodomor Memorial Day.
