people by the Soviet Government." On 12 May 2022, and at the 117th United States congress, a new H. Res. 1109 was adopted, recognizing the Holodomor as a genocide and the resolution to serve as a reminder of the repressive Soviet policies including the blockade policy that prevented the delivery of humanitarian aid and people from escaping. Vatican City On 23 November 2022, Pope Francis held a ceremony to remember the victims of the famine. He referred to the Holodomor as a genocide. "Let us remember long-suffering Ukraine. This Saturday marks the anniversary of the terrible genocide of the Holodomor in 1932–1933 artificially caused by Stalin. Let us pray for the victims of this genocide and pray for the all Ukrainians, the children, the women and the elderly, the babies, who are today suffering the martyrdom of aggression." Holodomor memorials In popular culture Cinema Harvest of Despair (1984), directed by Slavko Nowytski (documentary film) Famine-33 (1991), directed by Oles Yanchuk The Guide (2014), directed by Oles Sanin Child 44 (2015), directed by Daniel Espinosa based on the book by Tom Rob Smith briefly describes the Holodomor Bitter Harvest (2017), directed by George Mendeluk Mr. Jones (2019), directed by Agnieszka Holland Literature Ulas Samchuk's novel Maria (1934) is dedicated to the Holodomor, (English translation, Maria. A Chronicle of a Life 1952). Theatre The play Holodomor premiered in Tehran, Iran in February 2021. Works Bloodlands Holodomor: The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932–1933) See also 1921–1923 famine in Ukraine Double genocide theory Outline of Genocide studies Droughts and famines in Russia and the Soviet Union Excess mortality in the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin Hunger Plan List of Holodomor memorials and monuments List of massacres in Ukraine Mass killings under communist regimes National Museum of the Holodomor-Genocide Notes References Bibliography Original online issues for series: Liber, George. Total wars and the making of modern Ukraine, 1914–1954 ( U of Toronto Press, 2016). (A collection of Mace's articles and columns published in Den from 1993 to 2004). </ref> |author-link=U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine|editor1-link=James Mace}} Further reading Declarations and legal acts U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine. 19 April 1988. "Findings of the Commission on the Ukraine Famine" (Report to Congress). United Nations. 2003. Joint Statement on the Great Famine of 1932–1933 in Ukraine (Holodomor) Books and articles Martchenko, Borys, La famine-genocide en Ukraine: 1932–1933, (Paris: Publications de l'Est europeen, 1983). Memorial, compiled by Lubomyr