Interior Ministry hands over seven declassified cases on genocide of Ukrainians in 1932-1933 to Holodomor Museum – Dpty Minister

KYIV. Sept 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine handed over to the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide seven archival digitized copies of declassified criminal cases on the facts of the genocide of the Soviet regime against the Ukrainian nation during the Holodomor of 1932-1933, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Mary Akopyan.

"Last year, we signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide, and as part of this cooperation, the museum received from our department the first two digitized copies of declassified archival materials of criminal cases. Today we are transferring electronic and paper copies of seven more declassified criminal cases to the museum," said Akopyan, speaking at the international forum entitled "Mass artificial famines: we remember, we honor" in Kyiv on Tuesday.

According to her, these criminal cases concern specific convicted people – victims of the Holodomor and their personal stories, "testifying to the scale of the tragedy and the facts of purposeful genocide against the Ukrainian nation."

"One of them is the case of mass protests against the measures of Soviet power in the village of Dobrianske, Sumy region, in January 1932. Several people were sentenced to different terms of imprisonment," she said.

As reported, in the fall of 2020, a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in the field of providing access to previously classified archival materials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.