‘Death by Hunger’: Trudeau, Poilievre Condemn Stalin’s Holodomor

A woman lights a candle placed in a lantern in tribute to the victims of communism in the 1932–33 famine in Ukraine, at the National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide in Kyiv on Nov. 23, 2024. Ukraine marked 91 years since the Holodomor famine inflicted by the Soviet regime under Stalin, which left millions dead. Photo by Roman Pilipey/AFP via Getty Images

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre on the occasion of Holodomor Memorial Day condemned the Soviet-imposed famine in Ukraine and denounced the horrors wrought by communist ideology.

“In 1932 and 1933, Joseph Stalin’s Soviet regime inflicted a deliberate famine across Ukraine. The Holodomor—‘death by hunger’—was a genocide that starved millions of innocent Ukrainians,” Trudeau wrote on the social media platform X on Nov. 23.