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75th anniversary of the start of a Soviet-era famine that killed millions
Nov 23, 2008 at 15:07
Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko, centre and his children place candles during a commemoration service for Holodomor victims in a cathedral in Kyiv Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 22, 2008. Ukraine is commemorating the start of the 1930s famine that was engineered by Soviet authorities and killed millions of people. President Viktor Yushchenko is trying to win international recognition of the 1932-33 tragedy as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian nation
The anniversary of Holodomor - or Death by Hunger as it is known here - is traditionally marked in late November, when the food shortages began. The famine was orchestrated by dictator Josef Stalin to force peasants to give up their land and join collective farms and Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, suffered the most. (Photos by Yaroslav Debelyi, AP, Mykhaylo Markiv)